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...last time the farmland value line took a perpendicular upward direction it finally went through the roof. Many a farmer is still in hock because he forgot then that what goes up, etc. On the awful 1921-35 toboggan the average value of a U.S. farm nosedived from $10,284 to $4,825; some 85,000 farmers hit bottom and went through the wringer in the '30s. But this time there are indications that the U.S. farmer does not yet need to be reminded of those doleful years. Most hopeful contrasts between now & then...
...here & there, in back pages of the newspapers, little items said eloquently that the U.S. was still the U.S. In Colorado a 16-year-old lad braved frozen hands and feet to help haul a toboggan eight miles through snowdrifts on an 8,000-ft. mountain, rescue a pneumonia-stricken rancher. A lad crippled by two bone operations, tuberculosis of the hip, pneumonia, ptomaine poisoning, appendicitis, graduated at the head of his Manhattan high-school class...
Fully equipped for emergencies, the patrolmen have plenty of excitement each Winter rescuing people with broken arms, legs, and hips, but even without the aid of a toboggan, Stephen Winship '42, head of the group, last Spring successfully moved an injured man down Mount Mansfield. Finding a skier with a broken ankle on one of the trails, Winship had to improvise a vehicle from skis and poles. He then guided his charge laboriously through the darkness over difficult terrain to the bottom of the mountain...
...tame that they ate out of people's hands, ceased to be sporting shots. Partridge, pheasants, turkeys took off for good over the park's eight-foot fence. The striped bass in the lake were soon depleted. But Mr. Lorillard built a golf course and a toboggan slide...
...Greenfield jump with its eight terraces for spectators is well known. From the edge of the cement take-off to the beginning of the level outrun, there is a drop of 120 feet. On February 22, Greenfield will hold an open invitation jump. Greenfield, too, has a marvelous toboggan chute, on which 60 to 70 miles an hour have been clocked...