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...Indianan sold the topsoil off a field and put the barren ground into a soil bank; a group of Californians use soil-banked acres to start future fruit orchards. Says Lynn Larson, who holds a city job to fatten his lean income from a 2O9-acre farm near East Garland, Utah: "Under these federal programs, the farmers border on being crooks-always looking for loopholes, letting cattle graze on land put into the soil bank." Echoes Kansas Farmer Joe Goldsmith, a 480-acre man: "It makes cheats out of all of us. Some of them cheat more than others...
...lost his place in line when he endorsed Harry Truman's nomination of an anti-Byrd Virginia Democrat to the Federal Trade Commission. (Byrd beat the nomination in the Senate.) As a result, Byrd-minded Governor Thomas B. Stanley and other Byrd oligarchs settled on State Senator Garland Gray as this year's organization candidate for governor. Almond announced anyway, traveled doggedly from county seat to county seat to outfox Gray by getting the support of the courthouse workers, who are the wellspring of Byrd power...
West Coast audiences and critics who have been listening to 22-year-old Pat Suzuki for the last two years like to argue whether she has the style of Billie Holiday, Jeri Southern, Judy Garland or Ethel Merman. The truth is that she sounds occasional echoes of all of them. But she also has a dead-sure sense of phrasing all her own and a warm-tinted, open voice which casts its own mellow glow over the familiar lyrics she handles...
...just another show"), she mulled over homework in an oversized kitchen (to make her look even tinier than her 4 ft. 9 in.), and with her cairn terrier, Rusty, climbed aboard her -magic chair and soared through the air to Wonderville with much the same success as Judy Garland heading...
...fire and casualty risks, it paid out some 61% of its premiums in claims, up to 35% in agents' commissions, 15% in management expenses to Cage, who also enjoyed a reported $40,000 salary and a lavish expense account. Living high, Cage took former Texas Insurance Commission Chairmen Garland A. Smith and J. Byron Saunders on free junkets to Havana and Las Vegas in his private plane...