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...hog" appeared on the Chicago livestock market last week for the first time since October 1920. Expected hog production...
...really doing things down there." At Chapel Hill, Jones met Paul Green, the Carolina dramatist; halfway through a performance of Green's "The Field God," in which Jones' daughter took part, Green stalked up to him and chortled: "Gawd ain't this a folk play, it's got hog-guts, killin' 'n everythin' bloody." Professor Jones will vehemently deny any charges that he ever wrote any folk drama...
Thence he moved to the University of Texas, where he taught from 1919 to 1925--a time when, according to Governor Jim Ferguson, Texas was "going hog-wild on higher education." After later teaching at Chapel Hill and Ann Arbor, Professor Jones finally came to Harvard with the Tercentenary ceremonies, in 1936. Besides shepherding 250 youngsters through English 1 this year and introducing first-year graduates to graduate study via English 185, he gives English 52 and English 70 and 170c in his special fields, Victorian Literature and American Literature since 1890. Jones thinks Harvard will get somewhere some...
...coming. Fed on fear and selfishness, the rumor grew fast and fat. By this week it had snowballed into a buying wave that no denial from Washington could stop; department-store sales averaged up to 100% above this time last year; soft-goods counters were stripped bare; women went hog-wild over anything wearable at any price, of any style...
...present program of 200 C-type per year can be stepped up. But chances are that at war's end the U.S. will have to tie up and scrap many hundreds of merchantmen and start afresh, just as she did after World War I with the old Hog-Islanders. By that time the chances also are that the U.S. will want a far smaller (though infinitely better) merchant marine than her present...