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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Willie Long Bone learned English at a Government school, fathered a son who graduated from Drake University. Recently Professor Charles Frederick Voegelin of DePauw University discovered Willie on his 80-acre allotment in Oklahoma, brought him to Ann Arbor for the summer session. Willie has already made some 50 phonographic recordings of Delaware songs and tales. Between performances he walks around the University of Michigan campus in faded overalls, a floppy straw hat. For his singsonging he gets $2 a day and expenses...
...third year in succession he has a major surplus to fight. Last year wheat was the most acute headache, year before it was cotton, this year corn. This week he had to face the music. On August 1 came due the loans of 57? a bushel which he made to farmers who put under seal part of their last year's crop...
...Farmer Rice and his crude trap-nest goes credit for starting the scientific breeding of hens that has made modern egg production possible. The poultry business is today close to a billion-dollar-a-year industry (fourth after cattle, hogs and dairying in U.S. agriculture's gross income). To Professor Rice, founder (1903) and retired (1934) head of Cornell's first U. S. poultry school, goes credit, too, for fathering poultry breeding as an agricultural science...
...skids under trade with the U.S.'s third-best customer.* To Japan last year went 7.7% ($239,639,000) U.S. exports; from Japan came 6.5% ($126,828,000) of U.S. imports. Small as this was in the U.S. total it represented 16.6% of Japan's foreign exports, made the U.S. her No. 1 customer. By toting up this million-dollar-a-day business, Japan could see that...
...Japan would have to buy expensive iron and steel or iron ore. For her other U.S.-supplied war materials (oil and gasoline, pig iron, copper, machinery and engines, autos, trucks and parts) Japan could go elsewhere, but not to advantage. To be unable to buy parts for her U.S.-made trucks, etc. might be embarrassing to Japan, especially if Canada (which has U.S. motor subsidiaries) should also clamp down. To U.S. manufacturers such an embargo might mean a loss of around $175,000,000 a year in sales...