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...perhaps another 30,000 visitors. Ahead also, for Florida, lay potential new wealth. Boss of the trip, A. C. L.'s Victor Wallace Lewis, has run such trains thrice before. He ran one through North Carolina in 1930; in the next ten years North Caro lina's livestock traffic increased 400%. Polite, twinkling-eyed Dr. Arthur Listen Shealy, U. of F.'s exhibit master, believes Florida's 35,000,000 acres can feed more livestock...
...livestock from Florida already accounts for one-third of livestock revenue, could easily account for more. Since only about 40 new carloads of cattle to New York City (at A. C. L.'s $125 share per carload) would return the $5,000 development cost, it is hard to see how A. C. L.'s long-range promotion can lose...
...Texas they were pitching horseshoes, getting ready for the fall roundup, looking over some of the finest Hereford cattle in the world at an exposition in Marfa in the Big Bend country. In Louisiana, where a Caribbean hurricane spread havoc last month, flooding out rice, breaking sugar cane, killing livestock, cotton picking started last week, the sugar mills tuned up, the first of the State's 47 fairs were opening, and at night the levees were studded with the bright fires of fish fries and shrimp boils...
...tailor's dummy into a lady, made stooges vanish right & left. Loudly acclaimed was his trick of covering the open ends of a small beer barrel with paper, then distributing a few noggins from the keg among the audience. With dancing chairs, eerie levitation, mysterious cabinets and livestock summoned out of nowhere, Sim Sala Bim provided plenty of pleasantly stupefying hokum...
...authority on sheep and livestock, Lord Ogilvy writes his stories in batches, five or six at a time, always keeps a week or so ahead, shows up at the Post when he feels like working. Son Jack, a Harvard graduate, Ph.D., is an instructor in English at the University of Colorado. His niece, incidentally, is the Hon. Clementine Hozier Churchill, wife of Britain's Prime Minister...