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Though cheap eaters, baby turks are delicate, cannot get their black feet wet without dying before Thanksgiving. Hence some growers tie on mittenlike rubber boots, or keep the birds off the ground, on wire. Fortnight ago a bad storm froze $10,000,000 worth of turkeys in Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa. The storm boosted prices slightly, yet at 26-30? Thanksgiving turkeys were less than chicken...
...recognition of his mission's failure. The truth is that it was not so much Sir Stafford who failed as the British Government in London, which understands Russian sensitivity less than its Ambassador. While Sir Stafford was earnestly assuring Moscow of Britain's friendship, the Government froze the Baltic States' bank balances in England, refused to surrender Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian ships in British ports, and last month requisitioned several of those ships. All this served to deepen Joseph Stalin's Oriental distrust of the Occidental Britons...
...Froze all Rumanian funds in the U. S. (estimate: $100,000,000) after German troops entered the country...
...trade, photography. Then the Geological Survey sent him to explore and photograph the unknown Yellowstone. For the Survey, too, he photographed the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde. To study and photograph railroads he got himself sent around the world, crisscrossed Europe, northern Africa, southern Asia, almost circumnavigated Australia, almost froze to death on a winter journey from Vladivostok to Moscow. Quieter now, he paints massive murals of the western mountains when he isn't tossing off smaller oils...
Fortnight ago, the wheat markets alternately boiled and froze with rumors. The spring wheat crop in a dozen granger States was almost ready to harvest. It was the season of the private guesstimators, who multiply rainfall by wind damage, divide by brigades of bugs, and sometimes pull figures out of the air, vie with each other in predicting the size of the crop. Meanwhile agents of the U. S. Crop Reporting Board were scouting, sampling and interviewing throughout the wheat belt, getting the cold dope from the farms. Last week, behind locked and guarded doors in Washington, the Board added...