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...report brought embarrassment to the Forest Service, which comes under Secretary Orville Freeman's woe-weary Agricultural Department and holds about 160 million acres under its domain. Edward C. Crafts, a Forest Service spokesman, confessed that the service had not been "sufficiently aggressive'' in policing claims on its lands. But the Government did display an encouraging ability to learn by its mistakes: Crafts has been transferred. Now he works for the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation...
Scott Fitzgerald and Budd Schulberg had never reported on Hollywood mores. With an air of almost embarrassing innocence, O'Hara introduces the cigar-chomping Hollywood producer who speaks in broken English, the star whose bed is in the public domain. His hero Hubie is something less than an ersatz, goyische Sammy Click...
...Government makes a special exception for farmers whose land is taken over under the right of eminent domain -to make way for a new highway, perhaps. In such a case, if the displaced farmer buys another farm within three years, he has the right to transfer his old cotton allotment to his new land...
Schemer Estes saw a way to get hold of allotments so he could increase his cotton plantings and profits. He and his agents persuaded numerous farmers in Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia and Alabama, who had been dispossessed by eminent domain, to buy Texas farm land from him, transfer their allotments to the new land, and lease the land-plus-allotments back to him for $50 an acre. Each farmer agreed to pay for the land in four equal
Died. Geremia Lunardelli, 77, coffee king of Brazil for 35 years, an Italian immigrant's son who, though scarcely able to sign his name, carved out a domain of coffee plantations that stretched 300 miles inland from the Atlantic, became an arbiter of the Brazilian economy while spurning honors and titles, saying "I'm only a farm hand; it is the earth that should be decorated"; of a heart attack; in Sāo Paulo, Brazil...