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...flower-sniffing began last August, when Daily News Horticulturist-Publisher Manchester E. Boddy offered Promoter Smith some $250,000 worth of Southern California's flowering farmland for the give-away price of $25,000. Boddy ("the Ferdinand of the publishing business") wanted a lively marketing outlet for the flowers from his 165-acre horticultural wonder ranch at La Canada, Calif. Smith had rescued his newspaper from a slow circulation death with dazzling promotion campaigns. If Smith could sell the Daily News that was, reasoned Boddy, he could sell anything...
When the mayor of Carvell City drove up, Cancy Dodd was sprawled on his broken-down porch staring glumly at his scrubby farmland and thinking about his hidden still and the two men he had once killed "in self-defense." Cancy was Carvell City's toughest Negro-hater. But his eyes popped when His Honor boomed: "We're looking for a new marshal. . . . Somebody who'll keep the niggers in their place." "When do you want me?" said Cancy...
...typical mung grower is Victor Virgil Beard, 31, of Waukomis, who came home after 16 months in the Army. He had been discharged as an essential farmer. Early this summer Beard cut 2,500 bu. of wheat off 100 of his 600 acres of rich flat farmland. As soon as the wheat was in, Beard planted the 100 acres of wheatland to mungs, this fall harvested 17,400 Ibs. of beans. The wheat grossed Beard $3,575, the mungs $3,132-and Beard still has 1,250 Ibs. of beans for seeds...
...were reported "the worst in a hundred years." The Cottonwood, the Neosho, the Little Arkansas, the Chickaskia and the Osage Rivers were at alltime highs. The Mississippi burst through levees from St. Louis to Cape Girardeau, flooded a million acres. A 20-ft. wall of water cascaded over Illinois farmland when a levee crumpled. The placid Schuylkill spilled over its banks near Philadelphia. Twelve were dead, thousands homeless. Tornadoes, ripping through 14 states from South Carolina to Texas, killed 80, injured...
...station KWKH. In the late '30s Decca made a record of his It Makes No Difference Now, made another with Bing Crosby doing the singing, and Davis was in demand. Since then his records have sold more than a million copies, and Davis has acquired 450 acres of farmland. He calls the farming his insurance. "When a man's in the business I'm in," he says, "things may blow up overnight...