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Lend-Geese Plan. Stahmann is selling eggs and goslings to farmers all over the valley, encouraging them to start goose farms of their own. Since he has not enough cotton acreage to "run" all the geese he can slaughter, Stahmann has set up another plan. He sells five-week-old geese to other farmers at a low price, to use as hoe hands in their own cotton patches. After the geese have fattened for twelve weeks he buys them back at around the original price, for slaughter. As a result of all this goose-swapping, the farmers get free weeding...
Anticipated dueling between the Cleary brothers never had a chance to develop in the freshman hockey team's 9 to 0 slaughter of Belmont Hill at the Arena yesterday. The Yardlings take on B.C. at Lynn tonight...
...food is ladled out of five-gallon cans. As I talked to broken men, silent women, sick children, the sameness of their clothing, their sadness and their words was crushingly monotonous. Many were farm people. Last season the Communists made them give up their seed crops and slaughter their pigs, cows and calves to meet agricultural quotas. The farmers knew that they could not possibly meet next year's higher quotas, so they fled...
Promised, or already on hand this season, are books from such old bellringers as Frank Slaughter, F. Van Wyck Mason, James Street and Rosamond Marshall (see below). And in March, famed Violinist Albert Spalding will fiddle his way into the act with, his publishers announce, "an absorbing and richly patterned evocation of a gaudy era of passion and plot, deceit and beauty." Author Spalding's hero: an 18th century Italian violinist who loved dangerously...
Khrushchev joined the party in 1918, got his first taste of slaughter in the bloody Civil War that ravaged the Ukraine after the Communist Revolution. In the '20s, he assisted in the liquidation of the kulaks and the mass deportation of millions of Ukrainian peasants; in the second Five Year Plan (1933-38), he bossed the excavation of Moscow's subway stations. His reward was the Order of Lenin and one of the party's toughest assignments: to stamp out the lingering embers of Ukrainian nationalism...