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...Washington, the Prohibition Bureau gave 100 Ib. of lead pipe confiscated from illicit distilleries to be cast into toy soldiers for poor children...
...farmer of good character and proven hog-raising ability the Association will furnish as many pure-bred sows as he can accommodate. From each of the first two litters of each sow, two pigs must be returned to the Association when they have grown to 200 Ib. or more. The farmer then becomes half owner of the sow. With eight piglets saved from each litter, he should have a 12½-pig-per-sow return on his investment of care and feed...
...Germany has not been driven to the last extremes, became cheerfully apparent when General Litzmann ended his harang as Speaker pro tem, and the Reichstag proceeded quietly to re-elect as its regular Speaker huge Hauptmann (Captain) Hermann Wilhelm Goring, a Fascist who has put on at least 75 Ib. since he took over command of the late, great Baron von Richthofen's squadron of German flying aces...
With the possible exception of old Bourbon whiskey, the most important things in the lives of Kentuckians are the Derby in May and the tobacco auctions in December. Last year, because Kentucky's famed burley tobacco began to sell as low as $4.61 per 100 Ib. (about one-half 1930 levels), the growers at one of the auctions muttered curses, shouted threats, then took to pelting the manager of the "floor" (warehouse) with apples, broke up the auction in a general riot. Several other auctions had to be postponed. Last week Kentucky growers were jubilant. In addition...
...being charred in the burning wreckage of an airplane.* Asbestos pouches are used only for registered mail and jewelry. Despite the fire hazard, the Post Office had a proud record to announce last week. In the fiscal year ended last June it lost only .01% of 8,846,000 Ib. of airmail carried. All of the loss was by fire. In the previous year the loss was .03%; the year before that...