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...there were 24.2 million horses and mules on U.S. farms v. a mere 1,000 tractors. Now the horse and mule population is down to 5,600,000,* along with a drop in manpower, while the number of farm tractors has soared to 4,400,000, supplying more than 80% of the power for field work on U.S. farms. Other farm machines have scored similar gains. In 1940, there were 190,000 combines on U.S. farms; now there are almost a million. The number of corn pickers has jumped from 110,000 to 588,000, hay balers from...
...levee paying no attention to the hazards. He brushed against a shower-soaked crepe myrtle, and, in an instant, his trig new Public Health Service uniform was drenched. Barely pausing, Dr. Frederick Andrew Johansen loosed a stream of expletives that he had learned as a boy among the mule skinners in Missouri. A couple of patients told the others what they had heard. From that first moment, the patients concluded that Dr. Johansen ("Dr. Jo") was as human as they come...
...never caught a serious disease. He had a close brush with a jaguar, but never, so far as he records, was bitten by a snake. Though often shot at, Fawcett was never hit by the 6-ft. poisoned arrows of the forest people; and once, when he and his mule fell off a log bridge into a rushing stream, he escaped, almost miraculously, without a scratch...
...asked another man at the shop, "do you think I'm crazy or something?" He went on with the good life-dogged and dazed as a mine mule toiling along the familiar tunnel...
Donald O'Connor thinks, with good reason, that television is wonderful. After 14 years in Hollywood, his movie career had tobogganed to the point where he was playing second lead to a talking mule in the Francis pictures. But after one guest appearance on TV with Jimmy Durante, Donald was signed as one of the rotating stars (the others: Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope) of the TV Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Even Hollywood took another, longer look at its perennial adolescent. O'Connor began to get good song & dance jobs in such...