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...Zuni, Navajo and Mescalero Apache Indians of New Mexico go out to harvest the little piñion nuts which grow on stubby pines atop the two great mesas, Cerro Alto and Santa Rita, close to the Continental Divide. For the past three years the crop has been scant, but such a yield was promised this year that the Navajos quit hammering silver and weaving blankets in anticipation of selling tons of piñion nuts at 5? to 10? per lb. Last month 1,000 Navajos and 300 Zunis went a-nutting in small canvas-covered wagons. When...
Sophisticates may take scant pleasure in the caressive, high-pitched crooning of Morton Downey but R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. counts as well spent the $108,000 paid him since June. Prince Albert, second largest Reynolds moneymaker, never had radio advertising until recently when 15-min. programs, copied almost exactly from the Camel quarter-hours, were sent out over N. B. C. The difference: Instead of a "Camel Minstrel" there is a "Prince Albert Dream Girl." Alice Joy, another unknown, has been given the same expensive send-off that Morton Downey had. "Minstrel" Downey caused instant talk with his mellifluous...
Crowley failed to penetrate through the Harvard line. He was nailed again on next play for a scant yard gain. Parker fumbled the ball but Rotan recovered it. Parker's kick to Crickard was grounded by Barres, Yale giving the ball to Harvard on the Crimson six-yard line. Sherry's line plunge netted three yards, while on the second play, he added two more...
...European market with wheat which did not exist. While Soviet officials scrambled to buy back their contracts, France, Germany, Italy turned to the U. S. and Canada for their supply. The Australian and Argentine crops would not come in until January. Meanwhile Europe was reported to have a scant four weeks supply (65,000,000 bu.) of wheat on hand fit for milling...
...last week Scot MacDonald boarded The Flying Scotsman. As she puffed out of London a dining car steward offered place tickets for lunch and the Prime Minister took one. Snorting swiftly North, the famed express had crossed one-third of England before luncheon bells rang. With scant appetite the leader of the "National Government" forked food mechanically. Into the diner walked a lifelong friend, Arthur Henderson, leader last week of the Labor Party which Mr. MacDonald led a few short weeks ago. The two men neither spoke nor nodded, cut each other dead...