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Early Bird. Ray Gene owns 40 acres of land, rents an additional 360, and is in partnership with his uncle in farming an other 400 acres. He also manages his own herd of 28 Angus cattle, with 22 calves...
...Lefty," into a dusty corner, and the failure of a last-ditch HDC presentation of "Juno and the Paycock" didn't add any blue stars for prestige to that side of the ledger. Fat with its "Joan" power and profits, the Theatre Workshop bounded into 1947-48 like a herd of swollen gazelles...
Morgenthau thereupon suggested Danny Bell, the Treasury Department's Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits (and now a Washington banker). "Fortunately, Roosevelt liked the idea. . . . Bell and I immediately set out to ride herd over the spending programs." They quickly found that Roosevelt's chief spenders-Harry Hopkins (relief), Harold Ickes (public works) and Henry Wallace (farm payments)-did not take to this treatment...
...fetches the highest grain price as a scarce and valuable food for poultry, pigs and cattle. At the current price level (80 shillings per 56-lb. sack), Dennis had nearly ?3,000 worth in his 20-acre field. He could not use it all for his 200 chickens and herd of pigs. Was he flouting the County Agricultural Committee's orders so that he could sell the buckwheat in the black market...
...Last June, 40 sheep and I had a memorable trip en route to Taiyuan in a transport plane. Twice I helped the co-pilot herd the sheep out of the plane's tail after they had jumped the rear fence of their bamboo corral and made the plane tail-heavy. When I told the pilot what had happened, he mused: 'I wondered why this damned airplane was dragging...