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American Dream. But no statistical summary of FSA profit & loss can measure the gain to U.S. society when the Wall family got their start. Clear of debt, Joe and Carolyne Wall are planning solidly for the future. Last week Farmer Wall was ready to thresh his 20 acres of oats-he figures on a yield of 40 bu. to the acre...
Harvest Army. Already the wide north ward sweep of the harvest has begun in Texas and Oklahoma and is moving for ward like an army with its flanks spread wide. By late June it will reach Kansas, then thresh slowly up from the heartland of the U.S., until by September it spends itself on the windy prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta...
...collegians piled into farmers' trucks. A facultywoman, a Ph.D., volunteered to drive one. Football squads turned out en masse. Canceled were football games and homecoming celebrations. In the fields, 4,000 of the State's collegians were joined by thousands of high-school youngsters, to thresh wheat, pick potatoes, top beets, feed the student army in farm kitchens. Cried a teachers' college president: "The finest community spirit I have ever seen displayed by any student body anywhere...
...profane and mundane world and the world of the supernatural and religious. The fenodyree (Manx brownie) from the Isle of Man has a diminutive Lincolnshire cousin, Robin-Round-Cap. These little folk are clumsy, hairy and industrious but, like pixies of more personal charm, have often been known to thresh a barnful of wheat for people they liked. The flying fomorians, of Celtic origin, have wings like the gremlins, but are larger and warlike. The hordes of pigmies which in the 2nd Century visited Fergus MacLeite, King of Ulster, are believed to be the ancestors of Swift's Lilliputians...
...effort to reopen fortnight ago ended in tear-gas attacks, smashed windows, smashed cars, and the ignominious rout of Wisconsin's Governor Julius ("the Just") Heil, who failed as a mediator. The agreement engineered by the Mediation Board provided for a referee with absolute powers to thresh out management-labor relations, protect "union security," nub of the long dispute...