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Last week President Hoover stuck close to his White House desk, saw few callers, braced himself for a prolonged contest with Congress. ¶ On Thanksgiving Day the President corrected proof on his message to Congress on the State of the Union (see below), punctuating the hours with an 18-Ib. wild turkey, shot in the Blue Ridge Mountains near his summer camp and presented to him by Postmaster William M. Mooney of Washington. With the White House in mourning for Secretary of War Good, only three extra plates were set, for Allan Hoover, Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Rickard. Other doings...
...turkey year was 1929 with its mild winter and dry summer. Husbandmen throughout the land raised the largest flock in a decade. Last week as the fowl began to move to market for the Thanksgiving trade, a surplus threatened. Retail prices in New York City, where 12,000,000 Ibs. of turkey will be consumed before Dec. 1, slid down to 50? per Ib.-15? under last year's price, with poultrymen fearful of further declines before...
...Reporting fact, not passing judgment, was TIME when it told how courageous Father O'Neill carried Death (50 Ib. of dynamite) to blow a hole in Cellhouse No. 3 so that militia might enter and suppress the rioting convicts...
From a flight of six Curtiss Condors 7,000 ft. aloft, the largest U. S. Army bomb was released, a 4,000 Ib. mass streaking down into a bullet-nibbled, shell-gnawed wood. A majestic, gloomy geyser of earth and debris arose, hiding the trees. At the edge of the range, some two miles away, listeners heard a long dull booommm...
Accompanied by a small thunderclap and two cinnamon clouds, a railway-mounted 14-in. coastal gun hurled a 1,560 Ib. projectile 25 miles out into Chesapeake...