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...first step he proposed that the Government buy up 50,000,000 acres of land, more if need be (total farm acreage in the U. S.: 986,771,016) in four chief areas: 1) the Appalachian Highlands and Piedmont Plateau; 2) Michigan and Minnesota; 3) the western fringe of the Great Plains; 4) patches in eastern Kentucky; convert it into parks, game preserves, grazing ranges, take it out of production...
...pale of NRA standards. This has led some people to say that a slight rise in costs would be well worth risking for the sake of making a patriotic gesture. But if Harvard is at one end of the ladder, at the other end are such colleges as Piedmont, whose altruistic faculty serves enlightenment to the Appalachian hill-billies in return for potatoes, pumpkins, and watermelons. It would be a gesture costly to the cause of education if Harvard were to arouse prejudice and ill feeling against institutions for which membership in the NRA would mean capitulation...
When Italian officers put away their glittering swords and appear at cafe tables in Sam Browne belts, then tourists know that maneuvers are beginning. They began last week from Asti in Piedmont south across the Ligurian Alps to the Italian Riviera. The problem was obvious: the defense of Genoa and the manufacturing cities of Italy's north from a French invasion through the mountain passes and along the seacoast. The Fascist militia was mobilized, acting in reserve for the regular troops. In the field too were little King Victor Emmanuel and Il Duce, who hurried over from his conference...
...River, decided that 100,000 to 1,000,000 years ago a comet must have grazed the earth. The comet head composed of hundreds of separate meteors, must have been 400 mi. in diameter. It nicked the Earth from northwest to southeast, scoured 40,000 sq. mi. of the Piedmont, ripped over 150,000 sq. mi. of ocean...
High Point. Without troops, without police, unarmed and unattended. North Carolina's Governor Oliver Max Gardner fortnight ago settled a nasty strike among High Point's hosiery workers. During July roving bands of strikers caused a hundred textile plants in the State's northern Piedmont section to shut down, forced some 12,000 employes out of work. In 24 High Point, mills the dispute was over a $2.25 base wage demanded by 6,000 strikers and $2 offered by employers...