Word: untillable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The call of the islands had been crooned by the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co., a local government agency interested in promoting new business. Under island law, Gardner has to pay neither U.S. income tax nor any Puerto Rican income, property or excise taxes on any of the movies or...
After reciting the Biblical story of the man who "once entertained certain strangers in his house, and . . . did not find out until after they [left] that they were messengers of God . . .", Oursler drew a modern parallel. He told how George C. Boldt, a Philadelphia hotel man, once surrendered his own...
Freak Beaks. On paper, his work looks simple. A hybrid chicken is merely the offspring of a mating between two different strains which have been carefully inbred for generations. This offspring inherits all the favorable characteristics of his purebred ancestors as well as a mysterious extra something called "hybrid vigor...
Despite its high Hollywood gloss, the story is told with considerable honesty and understated force. It will therefore doubtless irritate both professional Southerners and professional champions of racial equality. Back to her native South goes a white-skinned Negro girl (Jeanne Grain), who has "passed" in the North while studying...
"The Hair of 'is 'ead." The notebooks show that the old butler's best tipper was a certain Captain Davenport. Housemaid Edie learns why the Captain was sometimes so generous. Going into Mrs. Jack's bedroom as usual one morning, when old Mrs. Tennant is absent...