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...muddy, clammy snouts. In between them marched the buyers for the great meat companies, poking their porky flanks and paunches with sticks and crying the cry of hogs, "Tsaa, tsaa, tsaa." With swift gestures and few words the buyers made their purchases. Four times a day the results were broadcast and in the great hog States there was gladness on the farms. For last week the price of hogs was still rising. Speculators who had "tried a turn in piggies" chuckled. Farmers took paper & pencil to figure their gains...
...Norwegian and English. From throughout the Northwest, 90 singing bands participated. Minnesota's dirt-farming Lieutenant Governor Henry Arens presided. Featured were Tenor Paul Althouse, Soprano Elsa Alsen, and part of the Minneapolis Symphony directed by able Alexander Smallens, assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Day after the broadcast, farmers and cityfolk strolled about Harriet Park in an informal Sangervolksfest. Here they sang not Wagner or Beethoven but their own songs, beginning casually, swelling mightily as thousands joined...
...recall that when you discontinued your broadcast in February, you suggested that "The March of Time" should be carried on as a sustaining feature by some of the broadcasting companies, and that you did not deem further expenditure along this line justified...
...then, while I enjoyed your broadcast, the fact is that your publication has little to offer to one who like myself has available most of your subject matter from among numerous other publications that I read. Nevertheless I purchased TIME, feeling that in that manner I was helping to pay for whatever pleasure was derived from the broadcast...
...amply compensated by the increase in your circulation and by numerous friends you will make. Here is a concrete example. For years the_Literary Digest has boasted of the fact that it is used as a reference book among school children. My one and only interest in your broadcast is that it appeals to my children, who are of school age and I feel that among this element you will be building up a following which in years to come will be priceless...