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...Princeton gave him its first degree of Doctor of Philanthropy.) Sam Higginbottom began Allahabad College under a tree, taught husbandry, erosion control which he himself learned as he went along. To replace the sticks with which India's farmers scratched the soil, he produced a cheap, deep-cutting plow, still called the "Wah-wah plow" from the exclamations of surprise it causes. In spite of Hindu religious prejudices, Sam Higginbottom put sacred cows on a paying basis, encouraging farmers to put them on forage grass instead of feeding them from their meagre stocks of provisions...
That in the simplest terms, is the fundamental dilemma the good neighbor policy is attempting to resolve. In spite of the grudging support or open opposition of American financial interests, it is attempting to plow the field has been inordinately rocky, as has the Mexican; and while on the latter front Mr. Donald R. Richberg is performing--apparently with increasing success--the hereculean task of reconciling Standard Oil and Mr. Cardenas, the State Department is proceeding space with canned corn beef. Such policies, fragmentary in themselves, add up in the long run to the political "atmosphere" in which American intervention...
Crusty, cold-bath-and-calisthenics-loving James Oliver perfected the "Oliver Chilled Plow" in 1868. Although the first metal plow had been made in 1837, Oliver's chilled cast-iron model was such an improvement that he has been regarded ever since as the father of the modern plow. Last week Oliver Farm Equipment Co. of South Bend, Ind. proudly announced the "Raydex" base and point, "greatest advance in plow-making" since 1868-the first entirely machine-made plow base...
...Plow That Broke the Plains" and "The River," two films produced by the Farm Settlement Administration, will be shown in the Eliot House Junior Common Room, on Tuesday night at 8 o'clock under the sponsorship of the American Civilization Counsellors of the University...
...turned up surprisingly few people who have got anywhere in big-time entertainment. Of the 5,000 who have signed the Major's "amateur's oath"-mouth organists, bell ringers, jug players, musical sawyers, garden-hose players, yodelers, tap dancers-most went back home to tend store, plow fields, marry, sell iceboxes with the memory of one shining moment in show business...