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...farmer in Texas is Hickman Price, oldtime newsman (New York Sun, Nashville Democrat) who three years ago gave up a $50,000 per year job with Fox Film to apply modern industrial methods to husbandry in the Panhandle. Last year smart, efficient Mr. Price harvested 17,000 acres in Deaf Smith, Castro and Swisher counties. Last week he was getting in a 500,000-bu. crop from 23,000 acres. Next year he plans to expand to 30,000 acres. He believes that intensive cultivation and proper use of mechanical equipment should produce wheat...
...without a major price decline, despite the fact that it would lose 30^ at current prices on each & every bushel thus sold. To the pleadings of Senator Watson that all wheat be withheld from sale, greying, strong-jawed James Clifton Stone, the Board's harassed chairman, turned a deaf ear. The Board, he said, would follow its selling policy regardless of political clamor...
...this alarm the Norwegian Government remained deaf, ostensibly at least, thus conciliating the Danish Government. Not so certain patriotic Norwegian hunters! Vowing that they would get to East Greenland before the official Danish expeditions led by Dr. Lauge Koch, they improvised their own expedition, rushed off to puffin-land, took the puffin by the bill and nailed Norway's colors to Mygg-bukta...
Manhattan newsmen, confronting the two flyers in "mass interview" in a suite at the swanky Ritz Carlton, experienced somewhat the same difficulty in thinking up questions to which they did not already know the answers. Pilot Post, still deaf from the roar of the motor, sprawled on a divan and let Gatty do the answering. What percentage of time was spent in the air? Gatty did not know. A newsman told him it was about 52%. Did they drink anything to keep awake on the flight? No. Post touches neither coffee nor tobacco. Doesn't he drink Choctaw beer...
...subnormal. In elementary schools 450,000 are mentally retarded, but only 60,000 are cared for in special classes; 675,000 present behavior problems, but only 10,000 are in special schools, 50,000 are partly blind, only 5,000 are provided for. There are but 18,coo deaf or partly deaf children attended to out of a total 3,000,000. (Edwin Cornelius Broome, superintendent of Philadelphia schools...