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Traders on the Rome Stock Exchange cocked pious ears one day last week to whispered tips that Pope Pius XII is busy as a beaver getting together a new European Four-Power Conference excluding Russia. Delightedly they watched as renewed hope of peace upped stocks for point gains...
...orotund Candidate Presenter Harold 0. Voorhis: "Veritably, may we say of this man of the World of Tomorrow as did John Dryden say of Alexander of Macedon, 'None but the Brave deserves the Fair' ") ; Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd, Doctor of Fortitude and Faith, from Pennsylvania's Beaver College. (During the ceremonies, Dr. Byrd's head proved too big for his hood, which had to be unstitched...
...Canadians were proud to produce a quaint ceremony of their own. Before the loopholed gate of old Fort Garry, Governor Patrick Ashley Cooper of the Hudson's Bay Co. paid to the King the rent established when King Charles II granted its charter: "Two elkcs and two Black beavers whensoever and as often as Wee our heires and successors shall happen to enter into the said Countryes Territoryes and Regions hereby granted." The King was willing to relax the requirements, and instead of a ton of meat on the hoof and a pair of rambunctious rodents, accepted two mighty...
...Beaver dams are useful to man. They catch fine silt that otherwise would wash down stream. Beaver ponds may provide water for livestock, and conserve moisture in dry areas...
With hundreds of arid Idaho acres already reclaimed by silt-catching beaver dams, Department of Interior experts look forward to using more beavers in Oregon and California. Cost of trapping and transplanting a beaver: $8. Estimated value of one beaver's work...