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...jobs were provided for many an unemployed soldier back from the Civil War digging 30 miles of trenches to drain a 345-acre tract of Chicago swampland, on which rose the Union Stock Yards. Last week the yards - now biggest in the world, centre of Chicago's only billion-dollar -a-year industry - observed their 78th anniversary. Over their scales 896 million ani mals have been sold...
...least 2,500 years, man has tried to control the sex of his offspring. In 1932, Dr. Felix Unterberger of Konigsberg, Germany pointed out that semen is normally slightly alkaline, and the female vaginal tract acid. In some marriages, he said, an unusually alkaline semen produces a preponderance of boys, a strongly acid vaginal tract a majority of girls. Sex of children should be controlled, then, by adjusting the acid balance of the vagina. After some animal experiments, Dr. Unterberger tried the method on humans, claimed to have "determined" the birth of 74 boys. His method: mild vaginal douches...
Riotous sabbaths at Cambridge University had brought his short undergraduate career to a degreeless close, but he promptly and incongruously enough prepared a learned Latin tract on proper observance of the Lord's day. And it was the fame of this which won him the headship of the young college...
...drillers, roughnecks, are the best in the business. Month ago he announced his tenth discovery. Out on Bailey's Prairie, in Brazoria County, his latest gusher came in. One of the deepest low-gravity oil producers on the Coast, it was the centre of a 10,000-acre tract, all under McCarthy lease. It looked as though the Wildcat King had joined the semi-majors...
...abolishing their "past impression of inferiority in the social scale." For industrial and office workers who will be unable to find re-employment, the Government studied a plan for the allotment of land, and a group of white-collared Banque de France employes were last week tilling a tract of land under the direction of the bank's gardener, hoping somehow to supply enough fruit and vegetables for their common table...