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Although the big farms are now mechanized and comparatively prosperous, they are still so dependent upon a decent rainfall that farming in North Dakota is rated by its governor to be a boom-and-bust proposition: between 1919 and 1952 the state's wheat production fluctuated between the extraordinary extremes of 19 and 160 million bushels a year. Since 1930, the population of the state has declined from 680,000 to 620,000-the biggest percentage drop in all the 48 states...
...wish to protest against your picture of the Burmese Prime Minister's backstage visit to Kismet [July 4]. Although it is quite obvious that U Nu knew what he was doing, a family newsmagazine is hardly the proper place for this bust-by-jowl juxtaposition of the traditionally quiet Eastern dress and the pseudo-Eastern undress...
...varsity added another run in the sixth. With one away, Butters again day send him to second. A wild pitch by Indian pitcher Bob Feltman advanced both runners a base and a neatly executed squeeze bust by Hill Chauncey brought in the final Crimson...
...Ratcatcher. Bessie's heart matched her massive frame (50-in. bust, 40-in. waist, 50-in. hips). But "I've no time to be sympathetic," she says. "There'd be no time to do anything here if you wasted time in sob stuff." Elected as a Laborite to Liverpool's city council at 30, she was rough, tough, uninhibited and unintimidated. "I wish I had a machine gun on the lot of you!" she yelled at the Tory councilmen in her broad Lancashire accent. "We have a Corporation ratcatcher, but he goes for the wrong sort...
...Edwards produced onstage a succession of relatives, Army privates, British comrades-at-arms and ex-West Pointers, the general choked up as humanly as any other mortal. Vividly attractive Mrs. Clark recalled that they had first met on a blind date and that "he was a complete bust." The general affectionately reminded her of how she had sat on a bee, added thoughtfully that then "we got to know each other better...