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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME exaggerates the digestive ability of hogs. On April 6 you state that "pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease." This idea was rooted in a statement in my Next Hundred Years- ''Hogs eat coal and enjoy it" (TIME, June 1). Hogs undoubtedly eat coal. Many a mid-western porker sees the black lumps of bituminous coal constantly before him supplied by his indulgent master. If munching effectively and with gusto is a mark of enjoyment, then the pigs actually enjoy this unusual foodstuff, apparently considerably more than the average American enjoys his daily slabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1936 | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Sirs: Esteemed William Esty Mydans, Ph.D., in TIME, June 1, cynically asks your authority for the statement that "pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease." I am able to supply the information on the highest authority, namely, Fred Fletcher, tenant on my farm here. On the return of myself and wife from a winter's cruise in Illinois, I proceeded to empty the ashes in my furnace which Fred had attended to during our absence. I was puzzled to see no fresh ashes on the dump or any evidence of ashes except that the coal (anthracite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1936 | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

White folks eat de apple, Nigger wait fo' co' [core] In Sistren an' Brethren, the rebellious singer commands: Stop foolin' wid pray, When black face is lifted, Lord turnin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs of Protest | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...eat yo' dinner an' take yo' lamb Gwine give you pay in de promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs of Protest | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Where are they going to live? Where are they going to eat? Is the University able to put them up? Are Harvard Square and its environments adequate to absorb so many? Will the alumni have to stay at Boston hotels and go back there to lunch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Information Bureau Set Up in Straus to Handle Inquiries on 300th Lodging | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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