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...Harry Ford Sinclair, who uses a dinosaur trademark to dramatize the age of his petroleum beds, offered to finance another expedition. Last month Dr. Brown bared no less than eight skeletons of the ancient monsters. Last fortnight he uncovered four more. The twelve skeletons are apparently of a hitherto unknown species. In an exultant but anxious message to the Museum last week Dr. Brown reported the welter of bones so tangled that none could be moved until charts and photographs have been made and the entire 25 x 60 ft. site excavated...
Last week China was crowing loudly over a marvel unknown to medical history. Not ultraphenomenal sextuplets, not hypersuperlative septuplets, but metaphysical octuplets were blazoned in the headlines of the Chinese Press. Seven sons and a daughter, seven felicitous stars and a comforting moon, were reported to have been born several months ago to the wife of Sam Ting, a Pearl River boatman. Only trouble with this Chinese marvel was that no one could substantiate it because Sam Ting, Mrs. Ting & family were supposed to be boating somewhere in Pearl River delta below Canton...
Statistically the biggest unknown factor last week was Russia, world's largest wheat-grower. Careless harvesting methods cost Russia nearly a quarter of her last year's crop. This year spring heat waves ripened the southern fields early, forcing peasants to harvest by night under the glare of electric lamps. Best estimates were that the total crop would be 700,000,000 bu., 30% less than last year. Several million bushels have already been imported from Argentina and Australia to Vladivostok to feed Russian troops concentrated in East Siberia...
...country's grain he benevolently preserved the status quo. He permitted the kind of free press that Mussolini enjoys. When a newspaper offended him he confiscated its owners' property, paid for it in worthless bonds. His laws were few but so sternly administered that crime became practically unknown. Said he: "It is my belief that England's freedom from crime today is largely due to that wise period when you hanged a man for stealing a loaf of bread." He made all farms taxfree, prohibited all forms of advertising. If anyone was found wearing gold braid...
...last week out on the blue Pacific aboard the cruiser Houston. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau was on a ranch in Montana. Secretary of Commerce Roper was touring the Pribilof Islands. Secretary of War Dern was at the Panama Canal. Secretary of the Interior Ickes left for parts unknown. Attorney General Cummings started across the continent for Hawaii. In short, most of the New Deal was on vacation...