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...exhibits of farm machinery were bigger & better than ever. At Dallas the farmers, getting $100 a bale for their cotton, worried about the shortage of farm labor next year, wandered through five acres of farm machinery: green and yellow John Deere harvesters, bright red International Harvester caterpillars, the sleek slate grey of Ford Ferguson tractors. But of farm equipment, there is already a grave shortage of repair parts, dealers would not promise deliveries, and in Washington Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard was pleading in vain for priorities for farm machinery...
...A.F.C. is virtually a huge one-way airline. Eastward to Britain each month fly fleets of sleek Lockheed Hudsons, big Boeing Flying Fortresses, plus some Consolidated Liberators (6-24) and a few Catalinas (PB-Y). They fly without the amenities of commercial airlines, part of the way without radio beams, with minimum equipment. The planes are built, not for transatlantic cruising, but for bombing flights...
...This sleek plum came with the successful sale of $1,500,000,000 in 2½% Treasury bonds, biggest new money offering since World War I's Liberty Loan drives. Like all Government issues, the new bonds were offered at 100. But the issue's high yield and the shortage of other gilt-edged offerings pushed the bonds 3⅜ points higher within an hour after formal offering. Even when the free riders (persons buying only for quick profit) unloaded, the bonds held firm, dipped only 5/6 point...
...last visitors shuffled out into the brilliant sunshine of Manhattan's Battery Park. Inside the Aquarium, the big pool where the sea lions once arched their sleek backs was empty; in the green gloom of the cavernous, dank galleries, water gurgled away, the lights went dark. The world's biggest marine exhibit, its denizens shipped away, was being dismantled...
Both Your Houses. In private, many Britons, like Americans, have made no bones of saying that they hoped Germany and Russia would annihilate each other, that both could go to hell. Fortnight ago no less a cog in the aid-to-Russia mechanism than sleek, sporting Minister for Aircraft Production Lieut. Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon was accused by Secretary Jack Tanner of the big Amalgamated Engineering Union of expressing just such sentiments...