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Shortly after 4 p. m., the great hay barn of the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. was touched off, authorities believe, by a cigaret butt flicked from careless fingers. The hay acted as a blow torch on the surrounding tinder-like constructions of sprawling Packingtown, the vast stockyards area on Chicago's Southwest Side. Almost daily fires are extinguished in Packingtown. But when the dreaded "all-out" 4-11 signal clanged through the city's firehouses, firemen knew that this was no ordinary stockyards blaze...
...probably half as much, the U. S. will not starve. But how farmers will make out is another matter. They would have so little wheat to sell that, in spite of a high price, they would lose severely. Moreover the drought had dried up pastures and ruined the hay crop. God's crop reduction may cost the U. S. far more for relief than man's crop reduction cost in processing taxes. The Cabinet devoted an entire session to considering the problem. Relief Administrator
...they would have pointed auspiciously, for one born under them, to the second week in May 1934. So born was Tyler Dennett, son of Spencer's Baptist pastor. On the first day of last week Tyler Dennett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of John Hay (TIME, May 14). On the sixth day he was named loth president of Williams College...
Singing Wood, a bay colt, is the best of Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's three candidates. Mrs. Whitney's sporting mother-in-law, Mrs. Payne Whitney, tops the mass entry list with five nominees; her husband's cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney has four, but no other Whitney horse compares with Singing Wood. Last year he won the Futurity, was top money 2-year-old with $88,050 winnings...
...focussed on Consul Bourguin, the elephant stopped chewing. Out shot the trunk again, like a fist this time, while the elephant trumpeted in rage. Consul Bourguin was knocked sprawling beneath the beast. Down stomped a colossal foot to break his leg and hip, then light as an armful of hay the angry elephant swung the French Consul overhead, hurled him high in the air across the tent...