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Farley on Agriculture wanted more "basic research" (i.e., new inventions), to absorb more agricultural workers: "In the decade just preceding the high days of 1929 seventeen million young people between 15 and 30 years of age left the farms and found employment in the towns. But for the past ten years rural population has been damming up in rural districts." He also boosted a basic crop: "We should never forget that rural districts constitute the great breeding ground of America. Yet the farmer today has lost the market for his greatest of all crops -his baby crop...
Without blinking at the immensity of U. S. wealth, the extent of U. S. poverty, FORTUNE makes as strong an affirmative statement with the photographs that illuminate U. S. life. as with the statistics that dramatize U. S. industrial growth, gives figures for future growth to justify the basic optimism that poll takers found when they asked their questions. In no field scrutinized could FORTUNE find that U. S. greatness lay in its past rather than its future, nor could it find one belief, one condition, one policy, the key to U. S. strength. "In spite of all lacks...
...Trumpet" is one of the originals written by Raymond Scott for his quintet of six men. (Incidentally, it will be one of the basic works for a Scott Ballet that the Ballet Theater is going to do on the Coast this summer). This writer has never had too much love for Scott's stuff, feeling that it was over-arranged, and mainly tricks rather than good swing. However, even with this handicap, the six men make the tune sound a thousand times as good as does the Pops Symphony...
...Griffith report was not considered an expose but an explanation of approved methods for aiding deserving athletes. "The basic principle of the Western Conference is that an athlete is entitled to every consideration which might be accorded a non-athlete, but nothing further," Griffith said. "The percentage of athletes holding scholarships is almost identical to the proportion of the number available to the total enrollment...
...they say God tells them that the Allies are fighting a righteous war. They have taken their stand solemnly, and we may assume that they will stand by it, and preach for it, and defend it in the same spirit with which they uphold the most basic belief of their religious faith the very existence of God. But how likely is it that they will...