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...Secretary of Agriculture must deal with crop-years-from sowing-time to harvest-time-rather than with fiscal* years, which, in the U.S., begin and end in the middle of calendar years. Secretary Jardine, reporting on the crop-year 1927-28 and anticipating 1928-29, announced...
...crack passenger train between New Orleans and Chicago. On the midnight run of March 18, 1900, with Mardi Gras guests abroad. Casey Jones saw a crash coming with the rear-end of a freight train near Vaughns, Mississippi. He did all he could to prevent it, pulled on the air-brakes, threw his engine into reverse. Then he yelled to the fireman: "jump if you want to save your neck." But Casey Jones, no jumper, stayed with his locomotive and died instantly in the crash...
...will deny that the policy of the Red Cross was justified, up to the end of the Civil War. But now that all China except Manchuria is nominally at peace and consolidated under the Nationalist State (TIME, Oct. 29) it is news that the Red Cross is still holding aloof. Correspondents received from Judge Payne, last week, the strong impression that he is acting upon advice from the State Department. The Chinese Nationalist Government has been formally recognized by the State Department (TIME...
...short stick rounded at one end and a hard rubber ball, together with the necessary ice, were all the implements for the first games of "ice polo", as the sport was known in Cambridge in 1896. There were no limits to the rink and so no player could be off side, and the games-generally developed into cross-country chases in which the man with the best wind kept ahead of his foe and scored goals...
Early in the season Harvard took the first encounter by a score of 3-2. By the end of February Yale had polished up its game, and at the meeting in New Haven held the Crimson skaters in check while themselves poking in the only tally necessary to win by a 1-0 count. The deciding game in the Arena in Boston was the climax...