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...years Rumanian minorities have been kept. They are now granted elementary civic rights. For the first time they can be elected without racial disqualification to State and civic jobs. The State will lend its support to public schools where teaching is in the minorities' tongues. Most priceless boon: Moslems, Jews, Unitarians, etc. may now enjoy full religious liberty in Rumania...
Though such devices may be dangerous to animals in wet weather, they are a big boon to the U. S. farmer. Ordinary fences are expensive, require several strands of wire, wear out quickly. If equipped with barbs, as most of them are, they occasionally injure animals severely. Electric fences can be put up at about a third the cost of the old-type fence and the operating expense is negligible-usually not more than 18? a month. The better fences give short intermittent shocks, so that animals will not "freeze" to the wire, as they might if the current were...
...first institutions to install this boon to the academic world was Purdue University where these pictures of the grader in action were taken...
...Austrian State Railways. Said an official announcement from the German Railroads Information Office, which last week closed all U. S. bureaus of the Austrian State Tourist Department: "The rejoicing of Austria and the happiness of the Austrian and German people over their long desired reunion will also be a boon to travelers: the dark clouds of political uncertainty have drifted away...
...himself, got into the House by a 9,600 plurality. He has remained there ever since, running far enough ahead of his ticket to win by 20,000 votes in 1936, when Roosevelt carried his district. The Roosevelt 1936 landslide turned out in one way to be a boon for Joe Martin. It occasioned the defeat in Ohio's 22nd District of popular Chester C. Bolton, famed as the richest man in Congress, who had also been for four years Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee. This year, one of Joe Martin's assignments may be to restore...