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...second panel, entitled The Homestead and the Building of the Barbed Wire Fences, is a scene of Territorial industry. In front of a sod house a woman and child pare potatoes; near by, on a wagon, the farmer with a sledge hammer drives a fence post in the ground. The foreground is shielded by rain clouds, but the sun strikes through beyond, lighting up a distant pasture. Observed Painter Curry: "Building the barbed wire fences closed forever the open range, and behind these fences developed a different economic and social order." Both panels are nine by 20 feet, painted...
...acres of ground and plenty of character. Explanation : sponsors were four fervent back-to-the-land organizations whose lucid publicist is Author George Weller of Homeland Foundation. For reducing cost factors which the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM found irreducible by the individual, they postulated cooperative buying of land by "homestead associations" of several families...
...soggier romance of Boy and Girl. The scene where the sub-chaser sneaks through the mine-filled fog and destroys an enemy submarine at its base is very well done. An unworthy companion is "The Jones Family" who are down on the farm or in the old homestead or somewhere...
...Primrose Path (By Robert L. Buckner & Walter Hart; produced by George Abbott). Eccentric families have become common as dirt on the stage. The family in The Primrose Path is not only screwy but scandalous. Overflowing a ramshackle homestead, the Wallaces, except for one unsociable white sheep who insists on being respectable, are a cheerfully depraved clan. Grandma is a gamy old bawd, who in her day plucked most of the primroses along the path. Her married daughter, Emma, is a talented and popular lady of the evening. Her granddaughter, Eva, too young to do anything worse than swear like...
...strain of thoroughbred seed corn, sold through the corn belt by Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. in which Wallace is now a small stockholder. He holds no stock in Wallace's Farmer which after an expensive 1929 merger with its competitor, Iowa Homestead, passed out of the family's hands...