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Died. Cora Hind, 81, oldest newspaperwoman in Canada, famed forecaster of grain crops; in Winnipeg...
...Grain Exchange observed two minutes' silence. Canadian public officials spoke and many a Western wheat farmer wrote his heartfelt tribute. "One of the greatest of Canadian women," said Prime Minister Mackenzie King. These words were the last homage to Ella Cora Hind, agricultural expert of the Winnipeg Free Press, who died last week at 81, still a working newspaperwoman...
...Cora Hind was known wherever wheat is grown in the Western world. Her uncanny accuracy in estimating the yield of Canada's wheatland made her final figures gospel in the world's exchanges. Once (1909) she missed by only one-half of one percent on a 118,719,000-bu. crop. From 1904 until 1933 she failed only twice to make a guess: in 1912, which was too wet for even a rough estimate; in 1926, when...
Undergraduates last week hardly knew whether they faced the front or hind end of the college year: many accelerating colleges this month begin their year instead of ending it. Colleges casually dropped many another old tradition. Some events in their topsy-turvy week...
...races, where he brought crowds up on their hind legs with the formation acrobatics of his Men on the Flying Trapeze, at fields where he was stationed as a flying officer, Claire Chennault never left anything to chance-beyond the possibility of a failing motor when his pursuit ship was on its back. As studious on the ground as he was daredevil in the air, he spent hours planning his acrobatic shows. He taught his youngsters precision flying, discipline, teamwork...