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...almost as amazed as hog expert Darlington would have been, to see a sow being serviced by a boar, while her young nursed. One of the most fascinating aspects of nature is its variations from the norm. If animals and human beings always acted and reacted according to known formulae, there would be little interest in either, writers would have nothing to write about, and I think the world would be considerably duller...
Details of this "unique" job are a military secret, but, in broad outline, it is a mass-production method for building cargo ships that should dwarf World War I's Hog Island. Higgins' swelling backlog includes a minimum 200 Liberty ships-the biggest single order the Maritime Commission ever placed...
...heard the revamped Bradley group on the air a few nights, ago, and found it a nice, pleasant orchestra, not greatly different from a bevy of other orchestras. They didn't play much jazz that night, but their numbers were delivered smoothly. I doubt if Adams House will go hog-wild over them, but as I have observed before, the orchestra isn't everything at a House dance. I did like his theme song very much, and hope he plays it all the way through some time. It was a sort of atmospheric Ellingtonian piece with effective use of tomtoms...
...read your enjoyable review of Cross Creek by Marjorie Rawlings [TIME, March 23]. And ... I wish to state that Miss Rawlings clearly does not know her hogs. . . . She states on p. 263 that a sow was suckling pigs and at the same time being serviced by a boar. A sow will refuse to take a boar until her previous litter are weaned. However in three days after the pigs are weaned she is willing to take. In this respect hogs are smarter than men and women as they thereby gain strength to support adequately the new litter. I have raised...
...some respects the whole vast program rated an E. Speed record of World War I Hog Island ships: 234 days from keel laying to commissioning. For Liberty ships: 105 days...