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...Hollywood last week, Actress Penny Edwards, 25 (Pony Soldier, Powder River), announced her retirement from the commercial motion pictures to devote herself to full-time church work. Actress Edwards, wife of TV Director Ralph Winters, was baptized a Roman Catholic, will now become a Seventh-Day Adventist. Recently, she said, she had felt a sudden surge of religious faith. "I felt myself bursting with love and happiness. At that moment, I wanted to have a baby. Then, two weeks later, I found I was pregnant." Turning to serious study of the Bible, she found that the truths of Scripture were...
Since Ware took over in 1939, he has spent $43 million on research and expansion, often by buying up likely-looking companies. He has built a chemical giant with 70 plants in 26 states, making everything from fertilizer for farmers to taste powders for housewives' stews. For example, in 1942, Ware's researchers, who were then extracting potash from sugar beets, discovered that one of their byproducts was monosodium glutamate. Ware bought up a small Ohio taste-powder company that was making the chemical out of molasses, and proceeded to make it his new way. Now sales...
...development of the tractor, the rainy years between 1914 and 1931 and high prices for farmers' crops caused a tremendous increase in plowing. Millions of acres of sandy or submarginal land were planted to wheat, corn and cotton. Amid the droughts of the 19305, the coverless, powder-dry earth of the plains lay helpless under the scouring winds. During World War II, heavy rainfall and high prices brought a repetition of the cycle; once more millions of marginal acres were plowed and planted by "suitcase farmers" intent on a fast dollar...
...ended, Stout and a friend walked up to Radcliffe in order to set the explosive off. They lit one fuse and hurried out of range, but nothing happened. Stout then went up to the bomb, and, in the dark, made a new fuse. However, he used to much powder, the fuse went too fast, and the explosion hit him in the face before he could move back...
...think only of keeping the news of it from the press. 'We want to keep this down,' she pleaded. 'We want no publicity.' And this at a girls' school (enrollment: 3,150), where the situation is described by teachers and students as a 'powder keg,' with girls arming themselves with knives-their own, or cutlery stolen from the school cafeteria...