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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bring a Tub. When the tree is found, it is marked. Then, in October, when the bees have stored all the honey they are going to for the season, the tree is cut down, or, as bee hunters say, "taken up." Bring a tub, advises Edgell. "The humiliation of returning [with the tub nearly empty] is as nothing compared to the exasperation of filling a couple of buckets and finding that you have no way of transporting the rest ..." His best haul: 97 Ibs. of honey from one tree...
...week look at the four news associations (Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, Transradio Press). Last week, the committee issued a 12,000-word report described by N.A.R.N.D. President Sig Mickelson as a "fact-finding rather than a fault-finding project." If not faults, the committee found plenty coming," of the flaws. report "The most declared, "is glaring in short the field of writing." Some press associations "use their radio circuits to break in green men: When they begin to get good they are transferred to the newspaper wire." Thus, radio wire services largely fail in "their obligation...
...Department of Commerce, shuffling through its latest statistics, last week found that the "overall picture appears to be one of sustained underlying demand." According to the Department's Survey of Current Business, the slump came largely because businessmen satisfied the demand for goods out of inventories, instead of from new production. When inventories are depleted, production will have to pick up; and so long as demand stays as high as it was at midyear, said the Survey, the slump will be only a "temporary" affair...
...Page One box, Managing Editor Parham asked readers what they thought of the experiment. By last week the votes were 10 to i against the new look. Most readers found the headlineless paper dull, couldn't tell big stories from little ones. Complained one subscriber: "You have to read this paper to find out what...
...fine form, Bryant missed only one entrance cue: between scenes he went aft to inspect his catfish line, and found it snagged. After wading in to pull it clear, he returned to the stage muddied and breathless in time to ad-lib to King Claudius : "I just caught the damndest, biggest fish...