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...Only 15.2 hands high, Battleship was one of the smallest horses ever...
Generation ago, it was a rare U. S. town that grew up without at least one church in its midst. Even the smallest settlements could support churches of two or three different Protestant denominations. Today the trend, observable particularly in new TVA towns in the South, and in such Government developments as Greenbelt in Maryland, is toward community churches, one to a locality. Away out in front of this trend last week marched a suburb of Richmond, Va. named Hampton Gardens...
...Wallace quota on any crop can only be imposed if a two-thirds majority of voting farmers favor it. Last week, 1,189,496 cotton farmers voted for, 97,456 against a quota. Biggest majority was South Carolina's (96%), smallest Oklahoma's (76%). Dark tobacco growers voted for a quota 38,209 to 8,746, flue-cured tobacco growers...
...reason of their religion Jewish farmers differ from most others. Although they engage in many forms of agriculture (but chiefly poultry and truck farming), they tend to live in groups; for Jewish dietary laws and ritual practices are hard to fulfill in isolation, and ten Jewish men is the smallest permissible group for public worship. With well developed commercial instincts many a Jewish farmer also takes in summer boarders...
Despite the appalling statistics which Surgeon General Thomas Parran has released for the country at large, venereal diseases at Harvard constitute the Hygiene Department's smallest worry. Less than five one-hundredths of one percent of the student body are annually afflicted with syphilis; and the figure for gonorrhea, more prevalent in this part of the country, is well under one percent. Contrary to an impression created this fall, the Hygiene Department has set up no special department to care for cases of this sort. They are handled in a routine way, the doctors making the diagnoses and offering...