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...Canadian wheat situation that when the Royal Tomb of Tutankhamen was opened in 1922 some wheat grains and other foods were found; that in 1926 a friend sent a few of the grains to Farmer Sydney Cunningham of Alberta, who in turn sent grains produced by his original "King Tut wheat" to Farmer Charles Borry, who grew new wheat from a crop produced by the original old grains...
When the royal tomb was opened in 1922 some wheat grains and other foods were found. In 1926 a friend sent a few of the grains to Farmer Sydney Cunningham of Alberta, who in turn sent grains produced by his original "King Tut Wheat" to Farmer Charles Borry who spoke up last week. Said he stoutly, "I'll plant some more next year...
...Tut-tutting such an idea Attorney General Mitchell declared that Director Woodcock had been summoned back "to furnish data requested some time ago by the President." What the "data" were, the Attorney General would not say, leaving newshawks to presume that President Hoover wanted more information on Prohibition to work into his message to Congress three weeks hence. Another explanation advanced for Director Woodcock's recall was that he was wanted to justify his budgetary request for 500 more field agents at an additional cost of $2,000,000 per year...
...being built with utmost secrecy as to exact details, in the largest French shipyards, Societé Anonyme des Chantiers et Ateliers de St. Nazaire, which had to be enlarged for the purpose by demolishing an entire block of buildings at the upper end of the shipway-a waste tut-tutted by thrifty Frenchmen...
Author Arthur Train deserted the legal profession to indict law and society in novels (Page Mr. Tutt, Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt, etc., etc.) which have been as readable as they were scathing. But the Train output has now slid off into a slow, melodramatic, sentimental tale of a prestidigitator who breaks into a New York society composed of retired truck-drivers. A truck-driver's debutante daughter lures the magician, but his old flame and vaudeville partner gets him back by misplaying their best act. The act: blindfolded, the girl stands on the stage holding a plate in her hand...