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...Harvest. A Kansas City trapshoot proprietor added a new business to his old. From his six-acre tract he is scraping an inch of top soil which is run through a hopper. Recovery to date: 20 tons of lead and brass shot. He hopes to recover 100 more...
...good U.S. earth is yielding up the first fruits of 1942. Soon summer, moving north, will whiten the grain fields to the harvest-the biggest in U.S. history and the most needed. But to many farmers last week things did not look good...
Farmers had forgotten their chronic worry: low prices and poor markets. Their orders were to produce; and they liked that, because AAAllotments had thwarted their marrow-deep instinct to plant, tend and harvest. Barring too many bugs, too much rain, too little rain, things should have looked good...
...they had new worries: about help during the harvest, about harvesting machinery, about boys who might be drafted and girls who could get war work in the cities, about bin space to store the huge crops, about high wages they must pay. Most of all they worried about next year-gasoline, tires, rural isolation, hired men, machines wearing...
Doctor of Laws. Citation: "Wise in his understanding of the needs of education and the arts; under his guidance the Carnegie Corporation has shown how private philanthropy may sow a rich harvest for the nation...