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...world, the enormous success of Farmer North and thousands like him may be even more significant. The new methods have proved just as successful abroad as in the U.S. For example, in England, Farmer Anthony Fisher tried his hand at dairying. After his herd died of foot-and-mouth disease he was about ready to quit. Hearing about the U.S. system of raising broilers, he wrote to Ralston Purina Co. to get free brochures on how to do it. He started out with 200 birds. Now his output has grown to 1,000,000 a year. The broiler king...
Genetic Freaks. Corn is a hybridizer's delight because its male part (the tassel) and its female part (the immature ear) are separate on the plant and can easily be hand pollinated. Most other crops have their male and female parts close together. The long-sought key to separation of the sexes in order to hybridize other commercial crops came accidentally with the discovery of patches of sorghum that had hereditary male sterility. From this seedsmen developed a hybrid. This year the U.S. is planting 8,000,000 acres to hybrid sorghum for feed-half the entire sorghum crop...
Died. Abner ("Longie") Zwillman, 54, called by the FBI the "leader of the New Jersey underworld''; by his own hand (hanging) ; in his 20-room mansion in West Orange, N.J. Longie Zwillman, who once used the alias George Long, came out of Newark slums to become a rich and famed Jazz Age bootlegger, peer and sometime friend of the best names in the blue book of U.S. crime: Dutch Schultz. Louis (Lepke) Buchalter. Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Al Capone. In 1951 New York City's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer linked...
...addition, the space may be used to provide private offices for non-resident tutors, or perhaps House seminar rooms, Perkins said. On the other hand, neither of these projects would bring in rent revenue. "When you sit down with the financial planners," Perkins explained, "they say to put some of these high and fine ideas back into rent-producing uses...
...other hand, Wessell continued, "a college should admit the best students who apply. It is bad to apply artificial geographical distribution...