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...representative at the London conference, at which Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy presided, was Albert Gain Black, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. A drawling, scholarly man whose hair is the color of July wheat. Economist Black, 42, took to farming almost before he could wield a pitchfork, taught agricultural economics at Iowa State College for four years, joined the AAA's inner council in 1935. Well-qualified to expound the ever-normal granary plan to the London delegates, Economist Black nevertheless failed to convince them...
...mural shows the President at the centre having his picture taken, while Harry Hopkins and James Roosevelt welcome arrivals into a New Deal Heaven. Cherubs above the President's head are Vice President Garner and Postmaster General Farley. In the right hand corner Herbert Hoover, with pitchfork, smiles at Alf Landon on the brink of a fiery pit containing Al Smith...
...tenth and twelfth, finish the fight on his feet after another knockdown in the 18th. The winner was Pedro Montanez, nicknamed Don Diablo (Sir Devil), of Puerto Rico. He had exhibited the agility of a hellion dancing on hot coals, a punch as persuasive as a red-hot pitchfork. The fight with Venturi was his 23rd professional appearance in the U. S., his 23rd victory. Almost inevitably it will be rewarded by a chance to win the lightweight championship currently held by awkward, indefatigable Lou Ambers...
...cheetah, a species of Asiatic wildcat which can run 70 m.p.h. for distances up to 100 yards. For longer stretches the world's speed champion is the U. S. pronghorn antelope, which can maintain 60 m.p.h. for several miles, 35 m.p.h. almost indefinitely. Rancher Charles J. Belden of Pitchfork, Wyo. once chased a herd of antelope 27 miles in 45 minutes in his automobile. Nearly an eighth of the 40,000 pronghorn antelopes in the U. S. roam over Rancher Belden's 200.000 acres in the Meeteetsee Valley. Few years ago they were so near extinction that hunting...
Last week, with 83 little pronghorns carefully wrapped in burlap bags and resting in two rows in the plane, Rancher Belden and Pilot Monday took off from Pitchfork, began dropping antelope all across the nation. The Chicago and Philadelphia Zoos each got a pair and three were delivered at the National Zoo in Washington. Then the plane buzzed on to New York, where eight went to an animal dealer to be sold as pets, six went to the New York Zoological Park, two were consigned to Germany as cargo on the Hindenburg. For each of the tawny, wide-eyed, prick...