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Reason for the farmer's plight is not, as TIME seems to imply, failure to put a duty on Brazil's babassu nut. Prime reason is compulsory pasteurization of milk in all major markets. Familiar is everyone with the cry of the orthodox medic that pasteurization kills disease bacteria which might be present in milk. Unfamiliar is the average person with the fact that lactic acid-producing bacteria normally present in milk are likewise killed, retarding souring, making milk a semi-perishable which may be marketed as fresh milk up to ten days from the cow, average city...
...when dairymen's lobbyists got a 3? a Ib. tax on coconut oil and other imported oils suitable for oleomargarine, they completely overlooked babassu. What was worse, the State Department in February 1935 concluded a trade agreement with Brazil promising to impose no tariffs on the babassu nut or its oil for three years starting...
...frozen to death last year after 35 years of guarding the abandoned Matchless Silver Mine, once worth $1,000,000 to her husband, the late wealthy U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Haw") Tabor (TIME, March 18, 1935). To an eager crowd were offered a dozen silver nut picks, a pearl-encrusted fan, 50 silk handkerchiefs, a quart of rye whiskey, dozens of photographs, a gold safety pin which once secured the diapers of Baby Doe's daughter Rose Mary Echo Silver Dollar Tabor. A silver dollar made into a locket containing Silver Dollar Tabor's picture drew...
...know, Boss, I've always been considered a bit odd. I've never gabbed about G. H. Q.,' and many things I've done were not understood except by my mother, who taught me where real direction comes from. ... I had been a nut for years, for not leaving my wonderful mother for some man, to save myself from being an old maid. My mother was called by G. H. Q. very suddenly. Without asking for it, I was given the knowledge, as mother was leaving, that where there is real devotion there is no parting...
...Scuttle, Up and up went Ethiopia's jig as a total of three central American countries resigned in disgust from the League (Guatemala, Honduras,Nicaragua) and Poland crashed through last week with a decree from Warsaw ending Polish Sanctions against Italy. Argentina seemed to be about the hardest nut for Britain to crack this week in the efforts of "Tony" Eden to crack all the Sanctions he was a leader in creating few months ago. Considering the British chiefly as customers for Argentine meat, supposing they meant all Mr. Eden had said against Italy, and being anxious to oblige...