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...directly to high school vocational agriculture). Joe, at the suggestion of his 4-H supervisor, bought a black steer, fed it for five months, and took it to the Nashville Fat Cattle Show, where it did badly. Back home, determined to do better, Joe bought a registered Duroc gilt, then set out to buy some good purebred cattle. He was on his way to a career as a farmer-but a glittering alternative beckoned, just as similarly glittering alternatives have beckoned other farm boys and taken them from the country to the city...
SOUTHERN SCHOOL BONDS are going begging. Reason: threats to get around segregation by abolishing the public-school systems have tarnished the traditionally gilt-edged credit of school bonds. After New York syndicates demanded Florida pay 3.11% interest on $10,585,000 of school bonds (v. the previous high of 2.69%), Florida withdrew the offer...
...Holes. Amon Carter was born in a log cabin at Crafton, Texas, the son of a blacksmith. At twelve he left home and took a job as a dishwasher in a boarding house. His extraordinary salesmanship showed itself early when he began selling gilt-edged picture frames, soon had a staff of salesmen working for him. In 1905 he went to Fort Worth for the first time, rented a typewriter for 50? a month, and had business cards printed that said: "The Texas Advertising and Manufacturing Co." But his most impressive piece of business equipment was a $2,000 diamond...
...military academies goose-step their way through Moscow's Red Square in unwavering, platoon-wide lines. The cadets wore smart new uniforms; steel-blue with sleeves laced with gold-braided laurel leaves; their officers wore striped yellow-and-white moiré belts from which hung short gilt swords...
...Hollywood Chamber of Commerce resolutely decided to add another layer of gilt to the city's glamour. Around Hollywood and Vine, crossroads of the film capital, multicolored squares of pavement will be set into the sidewalks. In the squares will be imbedded the profiles of almost 5,000 movie, radio, television and recording stars. Estimated cost...