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Last week, at the prompting of her manager, and with the aid of her attorney, Miss Belmont grew emotionally upset. She sent a registered letter to a firm known as Harvest House, to which she had once sold a photograph. The letter, which the attorney kindly wrote for her, threatened suit if the firm did not cease using her photograph to advertise a book entitled, The Complete Guide to Bust Culture...
...week long empty boxcars from the East clattered into Midwest terminals. As fast as the cars arrived, the railroads routed them to prairie lines, where more than a billion bushels of corn and wheat from last year's harvest lay unshipped...
Greer Garson let her temper simmer to a slow boil when a Hollywood stocking manufacturer claimed that she was bowlegged, had to wear padded stockings. Green-eyed, Oscar-winning Cinemactress Garson said that the only picture in which she showed her legs full-length was Random Harvest, insisted: "Those were my own legs . . . there were no complaints from the paying customers...
Peorians have long been aware that steamboat men on the Illinois River had certain lusty "natural appetites," and many Peorians saw no reason to ignore them. The town's distilleries turned the corn harvest into liquor, and Peoria's back streets were always comfortably shaded by brothels, gambling joints and saloons. When the river trade fell off and industry (Caterpillar Tractor, Hiram Walker, Keystone Steel & Wire) came in, Peoria went on being the biggest little wide open town in the Midwest...
...west as Minnesota and Kansas, grain-elevator operators felt the pinch for cars. In Nebraska farmers cried that 100 million bu. of corn (one-third of Nebraska's bumper corn harvest last year) would spoil unless they got cars to move the grain to storage elevators...