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...young Californian named Carl Schmidt discovered the Fuerte in the patio of Señor Alejandro LeBlanc in Atlixco, Mexico. He sent a few buds back home, the middle classes of the U. S. began to hanker after avocados, and in 1934-35 there was a bumper crop of 20,000,000 pounds which brought in $600,000 to California avocado growers. But last year there was another Big Freeze, which went hard with avocados. Ordinarily, the avocado harvest lasts through the summer, but by last week this season's harvest was over...
Starting at 8.30 o'clock, the men and older sons left for a day of tennis and golf at the Dedham Club with a litle baseball thrown in for the spryer individuals who hanker for that sort of thing...
...perhaps arbitrary assumption that his fellow-Europeans hanker to know what the U. S. is really like, Editor Ringel, New York literary correspondent for Berlin newspapers, persuaded 46 U. S. literati and 100 artists to contribute to an omnium-gatherum of descriptions, opinions and whatnot. On the assumption that such a book, "intended and edited for publication in European countries'' would enthrall U. S. natives, it is first published in the U. S., crowned with the Literary Guild's June choice...
...tiny lake. "He was a big disappointment. After the battle of Big Horn, which he merely directed from the sidelines, he and his squad of squaw men fled over the border into the greed Canadian territory. Customer's men couldn't follow them, and although we didn't hanker for their presence we had to put up with it. I talked with Sitting Bull in conferences an found him to be a low and wily chief who was at sea, because of the American massacre...
...letter describing the opportunities for college men as army field clerks during the summer, has been received by President Lowell from Colonel F. C. Hanker, demobilization officer of the army. The War Department has authorized the appointment of a number of clerks to aid in the demobilization of overseas troops at Camp Dix, N. J. The rate of pay is $100 per month, and appointments can be terminated at any time...