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...crop acreage to grass, the Government would pay him something. If he did not, the Government was powerless to deal with him. The cotton farmer who tried to defy the old AAA's crop restrictions was always trapped by the old Bankhead Act which stopped him at the gin with a penalty tax on his nonquota cotton. The Soil Conservation Act lacked a Bankhead Law to enforce obedience. Therefore it was definitely news last week when the Senate Agricultural Committee took steps to get immediate consideration of a supplementary farm bill nearly identical with one already passed...
...Jack Oakie, the dancing of Alice Faye, and several good songs ("I've Got My Fingers Crossed," "I'm Shooting High") manage to hold it together for the final embrace. But we would not care to dine in Warner's night club, with fifty trapeze girls soaring over our gin and ginger...
...interval between the flashing of a red light and the moment when the brake pedal in a model car, operated by the subject, is completely pushed down. "Contrary to the popular supposition", stated Dr. de Silva, "the braking time of the average person after taking a drink of gin is faster, not slower, than normally. Of course, the general efficiency of the driver is lowered, and his coordination is not so good, but in this one case the body reaction is speeded...
Pekin sits on the Illinois River ten miles below Peoria in the heart of the corn belt. Corn Products Refining Co. uses the corn to make Karo Syrup. The American Distilling Co. uses it to make Old Colony Gin. The American Distilling Co. employes are organized into a company union and an American Federation of Labor union. Last August an A. F. of L. man, employed as an engineer, was discharged for letting a vat of mash boil over. Fellow unionists protested. The man was rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which...
Several legends center about the dust bin. Several years ago students were somewhat amazed to find two small gin bottles near the surface. Further excavation revealed a curiously posed woman's skeleton ensconced in the midst of larger empty gin bottles...