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...came a pessimistic crop report from the Department of Agriculture. Under weeks of spring rains, said the report, a wide 1,500-mile swath curving from Oklahoma to Michigan and northern New York-one-quarter of all U.S. crop acreage -was now drenched. Some 4,000,000 acres had been flooded and knocked out of production for weeks. Farther west, in southwestern Kansas, South Dakota and the great pasture lands from Texas to southern Colorado, there was drought. Over the nation, crop prospects were the poorest in three years-result of the most unseasonable spring in years...
...revenue bill is expected to yield $8,525,000,000 (total Treasury revenues will be boosted from $17,500,000,000 to $26,000,000,000), to increase the number of direct taxpayers from 28,000,000 to 44,000,000. So wide is the swath that only Army privates and some domestic servants and farmhands will escape being mowed down. Significant provisions...
...Great Lakes Naval Training Station had the best football team in the U.S. This year a new generation of Great Lakes footballers, recruited from recent All-Americas, may go to the Rose Bowl again. But if physical fitness, mental discipline and the will-to-win cut any swath on a football field, the steam rollers that should blitz this year's college elevens will come from the Navy's four preflight training centers: St. Mary's, University of Iowa, University of Georgia, University of North Carolina...
...invitation reached him to visit Mexico. In Mexico's capital, the country's big people flocked around him. He was given a gold key to the city. He fell in with John Ambrose Hastings, a onetime New York State Senator, who was also cutting a wide swath in Mexico. Personable Mr. Hastings, who somehow came to be known to Mexican bigwigs as a U.S. ex-Senator, was promoting a "hundred-million-dollar syndicate," purportedly backed by U.S. cash, to industrialize Mexico. And there was Axel Wenner-Gren with more money...
...last Eastern intercollegiate stations to go commercial, the College station has been on the air for almost two years, having opened its facilities on April 15, 1940. New Swath more College's station is the only one in the East without advertising...