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...beat and killed Negro Willie Earle (TIME, Feb. 24) were not hard to unmask. Most of them wore cab drivers' caps; several of their automobiles were taxis. They were almost surely from Greenville, where Willie Earle had been arrested after the murder of a cab driver ten days...
...paper concluded that in order to purchase two pounds of beef today a bank clerk must work ten hours, a judge four hours, a mechanic six hours...
Aftosa, First of All. Last summer Mexicans were rash enough to import 320 tickproof Brazilian zebu bulls. The bulls brought the dread aftosa, or foot-&-mouth disease. By last week an epidemic had spread through ten states, and excited patrons were refusing perfectly good steak in Mexico City restaurants. Worst of all, the U.S., soundly fearing infection of its own herds, had banned the import of Mexican cattle. This was a deep hurt; 500,000 head shipped over the border each year make a big difference in northern Mexico's prosperity. Last week, while the U.S. Congress shoved through...
Tired of such talk, National Defense Minister Brooke Claxton made a public answer: "All the discussion and veiled charges about what is going on [at Churchill] have no foundation in fact." To prove it, he forthwith invited the Ottawa military attaches of ten foreign countries, including Russia, to go to Churchill, Man., to see for themselves...
...helpless. The referee, and Tony's manager (see cut), helped Beau from the ring, his face clearly showing his agony. Had the promoters, anxious to cash in on a good thing, killed the golden goose? Oh, no, said one doctor; Beau could be patched up once more, in "ten months to a year, if no complications develop...