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...hard-pressed Cash family moved to Dyess, Ark., in 1935, when a New Deal colony opened up there. Like the other landless farmers who gathered in search of their American dream, they ended up with 20 acres, a house, barn, chicken coop, a mule, a cow and a plow. The work was hard, the income meager. But, insists Johnny, "I was never hungry a day in my life. Aw, sometimes at supper we had to fill up on turnip greens and sometimes at breakfast it was just fatback and biscuits-but that was plenty." And the entertainment was strictly homemade...
Most enthusiasts are now experiencing the thrill of returning to the great outdoors. The inefficiency of Cambridge snow removal delays this exodus to the wholesome fresh air, but the hardiest are only too happy to jump puddles and plow through occasional piles of snow. The sidewalks beside the river fill, and the anticipation is unbearable...
Having sold the people on capitalism, the Big Board may now have to sell the capitalists on people. The surge in trading volume has swelled brokerage-house commissions, which many brokers have been more eager to pocket than to plow into necessary automation. Now, faced with a deluge of paperwork, they are taking the easy way out by turning down business from the small investor. So widespread is the move to eliminate the little man that President Robert Haack of the New York Stock Ex change, speaking to a group of civic leaders last week in Los Angeles, declared that...
Whup 'em or Weep. Most of that money was gouged from the hard-baked Western soil in which the sport has its roots. A cross between the pioneer plow horse and the Mexican mustang, the quarter horse was bred for the short bursts of speed needed to herd cattle. To fill the lonesome hours, cowpokes began match-racing for payday stakes and, as one oldtimer put it, "if you couldn't whup the guy you beat, you didn't get your money." Before long, horsemen were organizing races at state and county fairs across the West. Whole...
Pulling that eternal plow...