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Chief stumbling block in the program are regulations involving farm price control. For three months the farm bloc has ridden rough-shod over Henderson's best-laid plans and will continue to as long as the OPA must seek the approval from the Secretary of Agriculture for every limitation it plans in that field. At present farm prices cannot be touched until they reach one hundred ten per cent parity. So far this obstacle has tied OPA's hands so tightly that, although beef, cattle, and lamb are now selling at better than one hundred twenty per cent parity, Henderson...
...Anglo-Russian understanding made by Mr. Maisky over a long period of years." Many M.P.s looked up toward the very popular Maisky, who sat looking like a faintly amused sphinx with his dumpling body relaxed against the stiff-paneled wall, his hands sprawled on his knees, his black-shod feet propped up on the iron fretwork at the bottom of the gallery railing. He did not change his expression, but wiggled his right foot during the cheering...
...hand-to-mouth basis. Army and Navy courses for scientists and linguists have been filled, but usually with no qualified applicants to spare. Doubling the Army within a year will call for many repetitions of the Government courses at M. I. T. and Cruft, but only the most slip-shod arrangements have been made for supplying enough men to take them...
...byways. They pushed about with high, merry tail, like hunting dogs, sniffing out coveys of defenders. With their bare hands they made rafts of logs and rode down rivers such as the Perak. They stole bicycles, food and shoes from Malayans and Chinese, went forward faster, stronger and better shod than before. They grabbed barges at Penang, skimmed the coast and tried to make landings below British positions. They climbed in the trees and dropped, like monkeys, on passing patrols. Every hardship which a hungry animal could tolerate and many an in genuity it could not conceive, they experienced...
Despite a wet and slippery field, the Army Polo team rode rough-shod over the Crimson horsemen Saturday afternoon, chalking up an 11 to 2 score. Early in the opening period Higginson scored Harvard's only real goal, the other score being hung up on a plenty tally in the fourth frame...