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...miss job out of allotting land to the collective farms. There was no survey, with the result that "deeds of eternal possession" to the same plot of land were often handed to two or three different farms. The peasants then quarreled over who was the right possessor, while the land often remained completely idle. Sometimes an individual peasant's farm was divided among collective farms miles away. This state of affairs, the newspaper argued, creates confusion in soviet agriculture and makes any agricultural planning impossible until a new, scientific survey has been completed...
...smoky Cardiff, Wales, an anxious City Council was worried over the rich noble lord's latest business deal. Announcement had just been made that Lord Bute-a collector of castles, the largest individual coal royalty owner in Britain, descendant of the 14th-Century Scottish King Robert III, possessor of 14 titles-was disposing of half of Cardiff's real estate to an unidentified London syndicate. Reported to involve from $100,000,000 down to $25,000,000 it was believed to be the most complex real-estate deal ever to take place in Britain...
Louis. The possessor of that fist, Germany's beetle-browed Max Schmeling, presumably was warming up for an opportunity to win the title next summer from Champion Louis. After he had knocked out Louis, Schmeling thought he was to meet Jim Braddock for the championship, but Braddock believed he could make more money fighting Louis. Schmeling's opponent this week, a burly blond named Harry Thomas, was a comparative unknown, a college graduate who had been a professional baseball player and railroad engineer, had knocked out 44 of his 56 opponents in five years of professional boxing...
...Harvey Harlow Nininger has made Denver the meteorite capital of the U. S. Curator of meteorites at Colorado Museum of Natural History, professor of geology and meteoritics at University of Denver, he is the most persistent and energetic chaser of meteorites in the land, possessor of the world's largest private meteorite collection and probably the only scientist anywhere who spends all his working time hunting, studying, writing or talking about fragments of the cosmos from outer space. Last week some 800 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science assembled in Denver for their summer meeting...
Tune Detective Sigmund Spaeth last week became the possessor of a new job and title when executives of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., convening in French Lick, Ind., announced his appointment as dean of the Wurlitzer School of Music. The school has 100 studios in the East, teaches 25,000 students, mainly of high-school age, how to play Wurlitzer instruments. About half study the accordion. Next favorite is the saxophone. Students start out on a simple course costing about $1.25 a week, including use of the instrument. Well-advertised Dean Spaeth will have charge of all schools, plans to tour them...