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...catapulted over nine officers senior to him and made commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup delivered a peppery annual report in the form of a "happy, warless New Year" greeting to his Pentagon staff. Said Leatherneck Shoup: "A year ago I took the grips of the plow in my hands. After pushing an accumulation of vines and weeds from the moldboard, I lifted the lines from the dust and found hitched to that plow the finest team I ever held a rein on. Little geeing and hawing have been necessary." But Shoup also gave the Corps...
...keep the surplus within bounds, under the present Soil Bank plan, the government pays the farmer to keep land out of cultivation. Every year, however, advances in technology have brought forth more produce per acre than ever before. With less and less land under the plow, surpluses continue to average about six per cent above domestic and export demand...
...Eater. A ship designed to keep waterways that usually freeze open all winter has been patented by Engineer Frank C. Ehinger, 79, of Adrian, Mich. Circular saws mounted like plow disks in front of the ship cut the ice. It is forced back up a ramp into the ship, crushed to cocktail-size chips and spewed clear of the chan nel through a pipe. Ehinger says an oil company, which he will not name, has bought the rights to build...
...long as we're not going to use the IBM method of selection, we're going to plow through all folders," Glimp explained. The College's system of judging applicants on the basis of extensive reports received criticism last year from Wilbur J. Bender '28, former Dean of Admissions, who predicted that streamlining would prove necessary in coming years...
...Salt Lake City, young Smith learned not only how to plow a field, but also how to fight off an Indian attack. Throughout his youth the bustling Mormon community was watched over by federal troops and attacked by Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy. Shortly after Smith's 25th birthday, his father, who was senior apostle in the Council of the Twelve, succeeded to the presidency of the Mormon Church. "It was wonderful, but rather frightening to have him in the house," recalls Smith, "because the president is the only man to get revelations direct from...