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Winston Churchill, to whom admiring South Australian livestock men had sent a pair of white kangaroos, finally got around to the London Zoo in Regent's Park. But when he got there the pen was half-bare. The she-kangaroo had thrown herself against a fence and died...
There had never been a Hereford bull like Hazford Rupert 81st. At the age of three he won the grand prize at Chicago's International Livestock Exposition in 1936. Deep-bodied, square-rumped, the Hereford champion was sold to Cattleman Roy J. Turner, now Oklahoma's Governor. The price was small, only $18,500 for Rupert and nine other bulls. Rupert was withdrawn from the show ring, as Turner thought he would do better on his 10,000-acre breeding ranch in the heart of Oklahoma's "Hereford Heaven...
...down the ravaged Mississippi Valley last week, at least 48,000 refugees straggled back from the hills to homes and farms reeking with flood muck. Truck gardens were gone. Livestock was drowned. In 40 days, at least 4,000,000 acres of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois had suffered an estimated $500 million damage-a cost only 25% below that of TVA, and slightly less than the money spent on Mississippi flood control in the last 16 years...
...bill had been endorsed by 48 Federal Government and state authorities,. 20 carrier organizations, 85 shippers' groups, 145 farm and livestock organizations, 108 business groups and 552 chambers of commerce and civic organizations. New Hampshire's Scripture-quoting Charles William Tobey saw in this the "fine Italian handwork" of the Association of American Railroads. It had "greased all the wheels." Cried he: "Before God, it smells to heaven...
...LEGITIMATE FUR BREEDING LIVESTOCK IS NORMALLY VALUED AT ABOUT THREE TIMES PELT VALUE, WHICH MAKES CHINCHILLAS [TIME, APRIL 28] WORTH ABOUT THREE TIMES A VERY DEBATABLE $25 TO $30, WHICH IS A LONG WAY OFF [CURRENT PRICES]. BIG CHINCHILLA STOCK SELLING POINT IS THE PROMISE TO TAKE UP BUYER'S OFFSPRING AS PRODUCT AT A BIG PRICE, WHICH OF COURSE CAN CONTINUE ONLY AS LONG AS FRESH SUCKERS ARE AVAILABLE. WHEN THIS STOPS, THE BUBBLE BURSTS AS IT DID EVENTUALLY WHEN SAME RACKET WAS PLAYED IN CANADA BEFORE...