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...Olympics, the No. 1 hero was Negro Jesse Owens of Cleveland, winner of the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and broad jump. Last week it appeared that the 1940 Olympic hero would be another midwestern U. S. Negro, 190-lb. William Delouis Watson, University of Michigan senior. In last week's meet at White City, rangy Bill Watson scored 13 of the 54 U. S. points: first in the shot put (with a record-breaking heave of 52 ft. 8 in.), first in the broad jump (24 ft. 6 in.) and third in the discus...
Last January Midwestern farmers were hoarding corn, holding out for higher prices. Last week, the price was down to 40?, the lowest in six years, and no one wanted any of it. This year's crop is huge (estimated 2,550,000,000 bu.). Besides, there is an approximated carry-over of 550,000,000 bu. This, added to the new crop, comes to over 3,100,000,000 bu., 350,000,000 bu. over the five-year average of "normalcy...
Carpenter organized the National Chip Steak Co., set out with a trailer and a steak-making outfit to demonstrate and sell. Last week he reached Chicago having licensed the process en route to Western and Midwestern manufacturers (the largest at a $10,000 fee). In addition to license fees, National Chip Steak Co. collects ⅛? per steak royalty. Present output of "Chip Steaks" is at the rate of 30,000,000 a year, monthly royalties about $2,500. By the end of 1939 Carpenter expects to see royalties of $5,000 a month. Chip Steak Corp. of Illinois which began...
...months ago Jim Farley completed a tour of 13 Midwestern and Western States to assay Roosevelt third-term sentiment. What he found was never published. He loyally saved it for Franklin Roosevelt's ear first. Weeks rolled by and Jim Farley was not asked for his information. Jim Farley did not like that. Then Mr. Roosevelt appointed brash, ambitious Paul McNutt, whom Jim Farley dislikes, to a post of honor and influence (Security Agency). Jim Farley boiled...
WASHINGTON--A Congressional source said tonight that midwestern liberals, under the leadership of Wisconsin's La Follette brothers, have agreed tentatively to throw their political weight behind a move to get a liberal Presidential candidate in one of the major parties...