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...will have to get into the safest place you can find and stay there until the battle is over. . . . This also applies to people inland if a considerable number of parachutists . . . are landed. . . . Above all, they must not cumber the roads. . . . It may easily be some weeks before the invader has been totally destroyed...
...Grand Championship prize for best of baby beeves went to an Aberdeen-Angus. It was called Mercer, was 22 months old, and was owned by Irene Brown, 14, who had bought it last January for $60. Then, on the Exposition's fourth day, British Judge William John Cumber stepped into the arena to judge the show's Grand Champion steer. In the ring were the four finalists-a Hereford and three Aberdeen-Angus, including Mercer, champions of their respective weight classes. Judge Cumber passed his sensitive hands over well-meated sides, carefully examined shoulders and rumps, circled again...
Irene Brown was the first girl to own or exhibit a Grand Champion steer, and Judge Cumber called it a wonderful achievement." Said Irene: "I have just one thing to say to the girls ... we can do anything on the farm or in the city that the men can." When her steer, which won about $900 in prize money, was prodded out of the Amphitheatre's doors two days later, it was auctioned off at $3,785-$3.35 for every one of its 1,130 lb., the highest price fetched since 1929. Shortly Mercer will go, as all steers...
...buildings did not cumber the earth. Take, for instance, the Daily News Building and the Tribune Tower in Chicago. In both instances the passerby gets the effect that the structure is poised upon one toe and eager to float or fly. . . . Hood could do you a skyscraper which was ready for a fight or frolic...
...Joseph Warren Fordney on the all-powerful Ways and Means Committee. With Mr. Fordney's Congressional demise, Mr. Green will become Chairman of that Committee. If a new revenue bill should be passed in the next Congress it will be a Green-Smoot, instead of a Fordney-Mc Cumber, bill...