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...detachment of ruddy young British cadets, to train for the R.A.F. Last April a group of Army men turned up to see about starting an advanced training school for the Air Corps. Albany, its eyes a-pop, scraped together $65,000, bought some 1,500 acres in the flat pecan groves east of the city, leased them to the War Department for $1 a year...
...long underwear, seven pairs of shorts, eight pair of women's lace panties. In his pockets were: three knives, five pairs of dice, two pairs of scissors, five fountain pens, nine corks, a ring of keys, eight lead sinkers, twelve fish lines, 51 pencils, 14 marbles, one pecan, a box of snuff...
Last week, when 173 of America 5 golfing Big Shots besieged Fort Worth, they found its Colonial Club as tough a layout as they had ever seen. A par 70 course, its narrow fairways are bordered by groves of pecan trees, swamps, ravines and the chocolate-colored Trinity River that meanders stray-catlike over the course. Its tough Bermuda grass was an annoying novelty to many. And two days of rain had brought out chiggers-the pesky little red bugs that burrow into human flesh and start an itch worse than a mosquito bite...
...guests, middle-class Americans from all over the U. S., pay $1.50 to $3 for a cottage for two, $2.50 to $5 for a double cottage for four - in advance. Trailer fees are 50? for a plot and electricity. Meals at the restaurant, which features Southern fried chicken and pecan waffles, have a 75? top. Motor Courier Aldrich is proud of his big repeat business, says many a doctor, lawyer, U. S. Government worker makes reservations in advance. The solo traveling salesman gets short shrift at Pines Camp. Says Aldrich, "They kept sneaking women...
...plastics and automobile enamels; casein (from milk) for fabrics and plastics; tung oil for paints; Southern slash pine and yellow pine for newsprint; furfural (for plastics, oil refining, wood resin processing) from oat hulls; anti-freeze fluids and fuel alcohol from cull potatoes; cotton for binding material in roads, pecan shells for charcoal. So far, however, chemurgy has not much helped the mass of U. S. farmers, as Congress' election-year fondling of bedeviled agriculture well shows...