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...Hay-Bombers. At the 100,000-acre Tom Talle Ranch near Aroya, tough, greying Manager Elmer Ray rounded up three of the tractors. Then, with six muffled, red-eyed cowhands, he set out across the prairies, clearing a path for the cattle. It was heartbreaking work; they fought drifts by day, worked by lantern light after dark "caking" the tired stock with concentrated protein feed. But in a week they got 2,500 of their 3,600 fine Herefords into railroad cars and on their way to market...
...this basis, Reade has already got New Yorkers, including John Hay Whitney, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Cole Porter, to subscribe from $62.40 to $93.60 each for year-round reservations. For their money, they will be able to see movies (but not first-run ones) without having to wait in line.* The fancy prices also cover the cost of 1) roomy love seats, 2) hearing aids, 3) telephone service direct to seats, 4) art exhibits, 5) free coffee and French cookies in a mirror-lined lounge equipped with backgammon tables and a television set, 6) free cosmetics in the champagne-colored ladies...
...fool or a knave at the driving wheel of a motor vehicle is far more dangerous both to the public and to himself than a fool or a knave on the driver's seat of a hay wagon. Hence, on this latter-day road, the crucial challenge is no longer technological but psychological. . . . The old challenge of physical distance has been transmuted into a new challenge of human relations between drivers who have learned how to 'annihilate distance' and have thereby put themselves in constant danger of annihilating one another...
...hay fever did not get the best of him, big, easy-going Dave ("Boo") Ferriss of the pennant-bound Boston Red Sox had a strong chance in his second year in the majors. Last week Ferriss showed no signs of sniffles as he polished off his 20 and 21st victories...
Other crop reports made great expectations greater. In prospect are record yields of peaches, plums, truck produce and tobacco, near record yields of oats, rice, peanuts, potatoes, pears, grapes, cherries and sugar cane; average or better yields of hay, prunes, sugar beets and dry peas. July's milk production was up to 11,956,000,000 lbs., more than one billion higher than a ten-year (1935-44) average for the month; July egg production was up an astronomical 4,221,000,000, more than a half billion better than the ten-year average...