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...Next morning he was in Hyde Park to inspect a new firebreak in his woods, letting newshawks know that his 560-acre tract adjoining his mother's estate is not a gentleman farmer's operation run at a loss which he can deduct on his income tax return (as suggested by his district's Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish), but a timber operation (cordwood, fence posts, Christmas trees) on which he should realize a small profit. With him on this weekend was Author Emil Ludwig, biographer of the great, whose next subject is Franklin Roosevelt...
...Neill bought a 160-acre tract of land, planned to build a $40,000 Spanish Mission house into which he and his wife, one-time Actress Carlotta Monterey, who was born Carlotta Hill at nearby Monterey, Calif., hope to move next December...
...Mattapoisett, Mass., J. L. Stowell forwarded the U. S. Treasury in Washington 1?as his bid for the Ned's Point Lighthouse and an adjoining 4-acre tract at Mattapoisett which will be sold by the Government to the highest bidder. From the National Military Home in Dayton, Ohio, Veteran E. R. Coran promptly bid $4.98 in cash "and one-fifth of my life in service in any capacity that the Government may choose to consume...
...work of the Forest, the oldest scientifically operated demonstration tract of its kind in America, has been substantially reorganized in the past year by Ward Shepard, Director, who took the post last May after serving in the United States Departments of the Interior and Agriculture...
...Fort Knox, Ky. (TIME, Jan. 25), the U. S. Treasury last week announced similar plans for insuring the safety of its silver. Soon the Treasury plans to ask for bids on a building similar to Fort Knox depository, but somewhat larger, that will be built on a four-acre tract near the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, will hold 2,000,000,000 oz. of silver...