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...Highway 71 begins in Kansas City, ends at Baton Rouge, La. It passes through northwest Arkansas en route and serves the town of Rogers (pop. 3,500). From a drugstore window there, 35-year-old Clerk Cloe Mitchell often ruminated on the volume, speed and danger of passing traffic. Not long ago Cloe Mitchell decided to do something about...
Wingate Green, Jr., Baton Rouge--Baton Rouge High School...
...Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad operates some 1,600 miles of line in four States, connecting New Orleans, Shreveport, Baton Rouge and Monroe, La., Memphis, Tenn., Jackson, Meridian, Vicksburg, Greenville, Natchez, Greenwood and Clarksdale, Miss., and Helena, Ark. Property investment is roundly $100,000,000. In 1936 the road performed 1,085,000.000 ton miles of freight service and 60,000,000 miles of passenger service, gave employment to approximately 4,000 persons, contributed $1,625,000 in taxes in the territory served...
...shell. Listening judiciously from the rear of the tent, Conductor Koussevitzky heard the distinct click, beamed, pronounced: "Fine! Fine! Very good!'' Next evening as the sun dropped behind the green hills, Conductor Koussevitzky stood on the podium in un-summery white tie and tail coat, tapped his baton, raised his arms for the portentous opening of Beethoven's Leonore Overture...
...Young men and young women of Egypt. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, it is our task to bring our bodies into subjugation to our wills!" Straight from Boy Scouthood last week His Majesty was promoted to Field Marshal. He donned a uniform of red, white and green, grasped the baton of Field Marshal in lieu of a sceptre, and whirled off in his coach, flanked by barefoot native runners and Egyptian Royal Guardsmen who topped off their white, blue and gold uniforms with red fezzes...