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Tyrus Raymond Cobb, the fiery Georgia Peach whom the Detroit Tigers bought for $750 in 1905, was a daredevil base-runner, a shoestring-catching outfielder, a dazzling hitter. He could go from first to third on an infield out. On one afternoon, in six times at bat, he hit two singles, a double and three home runs. When he finally hung up his spikes, he had a lifetime batting average of .367, had broken innumerable different baseball records...
Fortnum's lush vegetable department has fresh asparagus at $2.10 a bunch, fresh peaches at $1.50 a peach, strawberries at two guineas...
...mortgaged farm comprise the life of a people squeezed of ambition by years of poor crops and unprofitable prices. Fortified by her determination to overcome the forces which have laid Europe open to dictatorship, she puts an erring girl on the straight and narrow and shames a defeated peach-grower into new life and hope for a harvest...
...Alligator" used in recent tests is unfinished, unarmed. But the Navy has notified John David Crummey's Food Machinery Corp., which will manufacture them (they also make spray pumps, peach pitters, fruit cookers), of its intention to buy 200 amphibians (cost: $3,500,000), to be armed and armored against the day when the Marines may again have to take a situation in hand...
...rescued children: "We didn't have breakfast any day. The first meal was lunch. Each of us got half a biscuit. Sometimes with it we got a piece of sardine, or a little bit of meat, and one day each of us got one-eighth of a peach...