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...Because of their Socialist objections to throwing thousands of southern workers out of employment Inventors John and Mack Rust have refused to place on the open market their mechanical (1 sugar cane thresher, 2 cotton picker, 3 sugar beet digger, 4 weaver, 5 tobacco cutter...
Mussolini strode up to the wheat with leg-stretching strides, threw off his coat and hat, seized a pitchfork and began heaving wheat into the maw of the thresher. There was no need for the photographers to hurry. Sweating mightily, Thresher Mussolini pitched wheat into the machine for one full hour while the peasants of Sabaudia, hoarse from their usual heavy doses of quinine, sang folk songs to him. An official called time and then handed him a pay ticket for 2 lire, 10 centesimi (18?), the usual wage for an Italian farm laborer's hour of work. Puffing...
...this is the best yet." Afterwards he was driven out to inspect barn, hog lot. corn crib, silo, tractor, threshing machine. "Mighty fine! Mighty fine!" the Governor repeated. "You know. I've lived on a farm for 50 years." Mrs. Roosevelt gamely climbed barbed-wire fences. At the thresher the entire party was deluged with chaff. Before Governor Roosevelt started back to Omaha. Farmer Sumnick. his words edged with a German accent, made this carefully stage-managed speech, to his guest...
Next to man, the shrewdest enemy of the whale is the thresher shark. Warily the thresher waits until mating time, when whales throw caution to the waves, splash and frisk on the surface, leap over and dive under each other, bumping and slapping in great loving tail-thwacks that can be heard for a mile.* At this time the shark darts tormentingly about the whale's head. When the whale opens his mouth to bite, the shark snaps at his tongue, holds him submerged until drowned. Then, to the anger of whale-lovers, the wasteful shark eats only the tongue...
...thresher shark gets his name from his great tail with which he threshes the water to round up the fish on which he lives. Also called fox shark...