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...produce and tobacco, near record yields of oats, rice, peanuts, potatoes, pears, grapes, cherries and sugar cane; average or better yields of hay, prunes, sugar beets and dry peas. July's milk production was up to 11,956,000,000 lbs., more than one billion higher than a ten-year (1935-44) average for the month; July egg production was up an astronomical 4,221,000,000, more than a half billion better than the ten-year average...
More than half of the 48 students enrolled, the largest number in the ten-year history of the program, are veterans studying under the GI Bill of Rights. Whitehead notes that whereas ordinary classes of past years were evenly divided between college students and working girls, eighty per cent of the present group "have had a wide view of life...
Then came the Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934 which gave the Philippines a ten-year period of free (or Commonwealth) government, and granted them independence on July...
...Hope. Luckman spotted him in a Broadway musical, offered to sponsor him on the air if he would tone down his smart-alecky manner. Hope refused. But after he had flopped with another sponsor, he meekly went back to see Luckman. Now Hope is signed to a ten-year Pepsodent contract at $20,000 a week (Hope's net after paying off the rest of the show: about...
Sherneth stockholders had not met since 1936, when, under a ten-year voting trust, a committee of bondholders took over the bankrupt hotel. In 1943, Kirkeby, who has an eye for bankrupt properties, started buying into Sherneth. When the voting trust expired this January, he owned $1,000,000 worth of the corporation'" bonds, 26% of its stock. But the trustees refused to give him a voice in running the hotel. So, his dander up, Kirkeby began collecting proxies...