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Before the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee appeared Cattleman W. D. Farr of Greeley, Colo. Disdainful of OPA penalties which make a violator liable to fines three times his total overcharge. Farr admitted that feeders sold above OPA prices: "Almost all the cattle arriving at the market at the present time are selling above the compliance range. If we were not able to get this black-market price we would be losing $5 to $10 per head on every animal we are feeding...
Technical Sergeant Stanley C. Farr of North Hoosick, N.Y., Ninth Air Force bombardier, headed home from Europe last week, wondering whether he would be discharged from the Army. In service since April 1941, a veteran of the campaigns in Africa, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, northern France and Germany, he had flown 160 combat missions, earning 32 awards and seven battle stars. His record adds up to 267 discharge points, highest thus far discovered in the European Theater and more than enough to get three men out of the Army. But Sergeant Farr, unmarried and a specialist whose services may still...
...Future Farmer of America, Ernest Farr, of Route 4, Emporia. had the top 1944 income. His farm record book showed an income of $2,617.20 (of which he saved...
...Tommy Farr, battle-scarred, iron-jawed, onetime British heavyweight boxing champion, who stayed on his feet for 15 rough-house rounds with Joe Louis in 1937 got smacked with a $45 fine in a British court for breaking the nose of a naval cadet in a pub brawl. Farr pleaded self-defense, said the cadet had referred to him as a "third-rate fighting punk...
...communication to the War Department, Lieut. Farr indicated the tone that Yanks would take, took a passing crack at phony warcasting. Wrote Farr...