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...Pharaoh of Egypt thought so highly of Joseph for inventing the ever-normal granary plan of crop control that he freed him from jail, made him governor. Although the scheme worked well enough then, it has taken thousands of years, millions of dollars and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to put it on the grand scale. After four years Secretary Wallace finally succeeded in getting Congress to adopt the plan in the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. Last week his emissary to the International Wheat Conference in London ambitiously proposed putting the granary plan on a world-wide basis...
...WINGED PHARAOH-Joan Grant-Harper ($2.50). Poetic first-person narrative about a co-ruler and priestess during Egypt's First Dynasty, described as a Golden Age of justice and the arts, in which the instructions in the Book of the Dead are carried out as casually as cooking recipes...
...mistress in Rome. With Antony she played the lavish wanton, outdid him in everything from drinking to horseplay. Deserted on the eve of bearing his twins, she greeted him three years later as though he had only been out for a walk. But her price was the old Pharaoh empire, his divorce from Octavia. This last move, says Ludwig, marked the point where her emotions began to cloud her statesmanship. It is his sober opinion that she helped Antony's defeat at Actium because she feared that victory would result in his going off with a younger woman...
...highway planned was to stretch for 800 mi. from Asmara- linked to the Red Sea by a short Italian railroad-through Dessie to Addis Ababa. It was to be wide enough for four lines of traffic, durable enough to withstand big rains, which every summer since the days of Pharaoh have made Ethiopia a 100% impassable sea of mud. A second road 50 mi. long was to link Debarech in the country's deep interior and Gondar, an important town 25 mi. north of vital Lake Tana, which empties its waters into the Blue Nile, feeds British irrigation works...
...this the evening he attended the spring Gridiron Club dinner, given by Washington's newshawks. First he was caricatured as Don Quixote exclaiming to Sancho Panza Garner: "Seest thou not yon fortress of privilege, yon castle of finance?" ("Them's windmills. Boss." said Sancho.) Next he was Pharaoh, telling ''Little Joseph" Wallace: "I had a dream last night. There were seven nice fat budgets all printed in black ink and along came seven scrawny budgets all printed...