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...Chicago this week, amid bellows, oinks, neighs and baas, with the skirl of a bagpipe band, exuberant farmers gathered for the 42nd International Livestock Exposition. Rising demand for their products made farmers feel better than they have felt in years. The numbers of U.S. cattle, sheep and hogs, especially hogs, have shot up in the past five years from 160 to 180 million...
...first time. He hopes to become a U.S. citizen. From his publisher he learned where his wife and children are-he had not seen them since they fled to the U.S. from France a year ago. In a small, dusty office, high over Manhattan's 42nd Street, Dr. Rauschning told what Hitler is now doing, what he thinks will happen in the next few months...
...April day in 1917, war-conscious Manhattanites at Broadway & 42nd Street gawked at a beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed damsel clad in an American flag, nonchalantly riding a steel girder to the top of a 20-story building under construction. Flinging a bundle of recruiting circulars to the spectators, the merry lady nonchalantly descended and cried: "I've done my bit! Now do yours...
...Benton's pictures have been the A.A.A.'s mainstay ever since its humble opening, six and a half years ago. It was then that a perky ex-publicity agent named Reeves Lewenthal opened a small office on Manhattan's noisy 42nd Street, started selling prints to department stores at $5 apiece. Most proudly pushed of his stock of prints was a figure of a Negro and a mule entitled Plowing, by Tom Benton, who, with 25 other U.S. artists, had agreed to use Lewenthal as an agent. The A.A.A.'s rise from a one-desk agency...
...British gave a further nip to American adrenals by announcing that Germany's two powerful battle cruisers, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (each 26,000 tons, each faster and better-armed than the late pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec), were indeed at large and as far west as the 42nd meridian. Displeased with the scare, the Axis press nevertheless aggravated it by jubilating at the alleged sinking of the first shipload of U. S. armaments bound for Britain under the Lend-Lease...