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Observers in Kansas, however, noted one new sign last week. Instead of plowing in their stubble immediately after the harvest preparatory to seeding next year's crop, many a farmer was letting his wheat fields stand idle and barren as if he did not intend to plant again. One explanation of this unusual post-harvest inaction was that producers had received so little for their 1931 crop that they could not finance the start of their 1932. In that event Kansas next year would see a large involuntary reduction of wheat acreage...
Naturally, a paper like the Comet is practically barren of reputable advertising despite the hiring of mercenary or publicity-hungry clergymen to write daily editorials. But on the theory that a million circulation-no matter what its class- will force advertisers to buy space, the Comet and its competitors push on, trying to outdo each other in nauseous antics. And that weird battle robs Editor Peters of his bitterest competitor and closest friend-Editor Anthony Wayne of the Lantern. Here Author Gauvreau makes no attempt to obscure the figure of the late Editor Philip Payne of the Mirror, to whom...
...left New York with his little command by steamer for Panama City and crossed the Isthmus, a flat country barren of people, on horse to Colon, where they again took steamer for San Francisco." When Panamaian editors read that paragraph from an article on the late General Philip Henry Sheridan written for the Saturday Evening Post by Joseph Hergesheimer - they invited Author Hergesheimer to visit Panama, learn something about its geography.* Recently Mark Gosling, member of the legislative assembly of New South Wales, prominent Australian radical Socialist, began a crusade to form "Socialist cells" in Australian universities. Came news last...
Purchased were 8,000 acres of barren sand dunes. On March 12, 1906 surveyors drove their first stakes among the tumbleweeds for U. S. Steel's fiat city. Streets were laid out, houses built, water and gas mains sunk. Top soil was brought in to spread over the sand, to grow trees and grass in. Great scoopers chewed a mile-long harbor back from Lake Michigan. Railroad connections were made. Against the sky began to rise the jagged outlines of steel mills, foundries, tin-plate plants. Within a year $100,000,000 was dumped into this desolate Indiana waste...
...then they always lose. He wandered up to the Treasure Room and found only two students talking in an excessively loud tone about the rate of subway fares out to Dorchester. Coming out of Widener he espied University Hall and a bright shaft of hope entered the barren wilderness of his soul. The publicity office. They might tell him something of interest. But in response to his query for news he received only a vague release to the effect that one close to the President had nothing to say. Things had come to a pretty pass...