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...Last week's report showed that 32.2% of last fall's plantings had been abandoned, an all-time record. Kansas, which harvested 240,000,000 bu. in 1931, is expected to produce only 58,000,000 bu. this year. Whether or not the farmer profits much from dearer grain and smaller crops the consumer will pay: bread will cost 1?more a loaf...
That Cod was the pilgrim's pride. It was Commerce. It gave its name to local Aristocracy. It never shivered its timbers in generations of debate. Not New England rum in its prime was dearer or more venerated. For the last thirty-eight years it rested easily on wires. Corinthian columns were near it. Above it were illustrious names, such as Parkman, Motley. Beneath it, of late, has been Speaker Saltonstall. So fortunate a fish wouldn't have swum away of itself. Somebody from the gallery prigged it on Wednesday. The ingenious Cantabrigians of The Lampoon and The CRIMSON were...
...more to run than one ordinary electric light bulb," Albert Einstein, on his way to Switzerland (instead of anti-Jew Germany) for the summer, got down on hands & knees to inspect the machine thoroughly, called it a "marvel," said it would be welcome in Europe where electricity is far dearer than...
...First Working Partner, Thomas Bat'a, has been the victim of a terrible disaster. Despite heavy mist he decided to fly to Switzerland in the interest of the concern, which was dearer to him than life. We lose him at a moment when he had succeeded in relaying the foundations of our security and prosperity, and all must honor his memory by devotion to the work that was his life's ideal...
...Cash-Shannon duel still bothers South Carolinians who "hold honor dearer than life." Col. Ellerbe Boggan Crawford Cash's wife held a judgment against her brother's property. A client of Col. William M. Shannon and Capt. William L. DePass held a junior judgment and contested the sale of the property to satisty Mrs Cash's claim. The legal basis of the contest was a charge of fraud between Mrs. Cash and her brother...