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Last week G. E. saw clover ahead. Not only was the consumer-appliance market holding up nicely, but the old utility market for capital goods was coming back with a kick. So, moreover, was another market with which G. E. had not done too much for years-marine turbines and other Navy electrical equipment. By last week G. E. was building more land and marine turbines and generators (over 2,000,000 horsepower) than ever before...
...farm buying power in 1939 rose 5% to $8,518,000,000, the industry cocks a hopeful eye at the 1,183,687 small farms in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin (not counting other hundreds of thousands in other States), growers of wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, red clover seed, alfalfa, timothy, sweet clover, beans, cowpeas-as potential market for small combines...
...Cumberland is formed by the junction of Poor Fork and Clover Fork of Cumberland at Baxter, in Harlan County, Kentucky, some 200 miles upstream from Celina where the Obey flows into the Cumberland...
Placidly ignoring the storms such paintings raise, Artist Wood lives in Iowa City in an old red-brick house remodeled by himself. He likes jokes with the same dry irony as his pictures. Once he told his fellow-Iowan Henry Wallace that he had just perfected a type of clover seed that would increase the nation's clover crop by one-third. Agog, Wallace pressed Wood for details, found it was "a seed that grows nothing but four-leaf clovers...
Exulted Edward Bruce at the show's opening: "It is a panorama of America triumphant, clear-eyed and unafraid. It smells as sweet as a new-mown field of clover." Less partial critics still found much to praise, noted a steady improvement from 1934, agreed that even if the SFA has yet to uncover a genius, it has uncovered plenty of talent...