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...Long Island, which now raises five to six million Pekin ducks a year-about half the total U.S. supply-duck farmers last week were half-wishing the Emperor had kept his ducks. Their feed costs were the highest ever, but the price of ducks had dropped 13% in a month. Now, at the peak of their season, Long Islanders are shipping some 200,000 ducks a week to market. But wholesale prices have fallen to 26? a pound, 2½? below the old OPA ceiling...
...shipped as a private in 1917. During World War I he chafed aboard ship, a bored, seagoing marine. He saw more action after the war. In Haiti he won the Haitian Military Medal. In Nicaragua he twice won the Navy Cross. He served with the Horse Marines at Pekin, with the famed Fourth at Shanghai...
Between 1899 and 1944 William George Rolph had put in a lot of time with U.S. forces. In 1911 he enlisted in the Marines, landed at Pekin and Shanghai to help protect U.S. citizens during the Chinese revolution. Five years later he stormed a fort with the Marines in Santo Domingo, later served in Haiti...
Three years ago Dr. Chen became Bishop of the Methodist Church's Chungking Area. (Only other Chinese Methodist Bishop: Dr. Z. T. Kaung of Pekin.) Chungking's population ebbs & flows with so many refugees that even the Bishop does not know how many Methodists are there. In all China there are not more than five million Christians. But Bishop Chen is more than a Methodist leader. He is a great interfaith leader, and Chinese of all beliefs know of him and his work for Chinese unity. He is a prime force in the Fellowship of Religious Believers...
...Everett McKinley Dirksen, 47, a big, tousled, thoughtful, farm-minded Representative from Pekin, Ill., a town of 19,000 population which lies on the east bank of the Illinois River, just south of Peoria. The Pride of Pekin told the Washington press that 36 fellow Congressmen from 13 States had signed a petition urging him to try for the Republican Presidential nomination. He insisted that he was a serious candidate. He scorned any idea of acting as a "favorite son," which is the main strategy of the Pew-Hamilton "stop Willkie" campaign...