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...sooner was the Lapuan revolt ended than the Government had to face another problem. Packs of famished wolves were reported in East Finland sweeping south from Lapland. Farmers' livestock was slaughtered, the beasts even invading village streets. In mid-Finland a young girl was torn to pieces as she walked on the highroad near her home. Civil guards turned from the Fascists to the wolves but were able to report the death of only two by the week...
...will run for three years, renewable for two more. After five years the four non-Government directors will be dropped from the Board and five years later! R. F. C. must be liquidated. Authorized borrowers: "Any bank, savings bank, trust company, building & loan association, insurance company, intermediate credit bank, livestock credit corporation, agricultural or farmers' association or other bona-fide financial institution"?and the railroads. Individual loans are limited to $200.000.000 and R. F. C. directors are free to fix interest rates...
Little better than the rest of the world has Ireland escaped Depression. Irish industries are depressed. Irish dairy products and livestock are a glut. More important, a lot of doors have been closed to Irish immigration. More depressed Irishmen from the U. S. are going back to Ireland than are trying to leave. With nothing to do, no place to go, Irishmen often make trouble, especially when cooped up at home with a lot of other Irishmen...
While a monster bull from Assyria was exciting admiration on one side of Chicago last week (see p. 23) a chunky little steer from New York was being admired on another side of town, at the annual International Livestock Exposition in Union Stockyards. He was Briarcliff Thickset, a glossy Aberdeen Angus eleven months old, whose 1,140 lb. of bone, gristle and good red meat were formed so well and in such good condition that the judges named him world's grand champion, Steer of the Year. Being a steer, Briarcliff Thickset was good for nothing but the slaughter...
...where meals are served at a soft, table by Mexican servants, where a feudal atmosphere still prevails. "Dick" Kleberg once tried ranching but gave it up to move to Corpus Christi, go into the cattle business, play good golf. Today the King Ranch, with its 100,000 head of livestock, its miles of plains and gardens, its oil wells, is managed by the new Congressman's brother Robert, who roams it from dawn to dark...