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...ball game some of us tried to play after drill Monday, when do we get started on a physical training program of some kind--cause man, we need un. . . How is Ship's Service coming along, and what's for sale at the Fargo Building store?. . . How's the co-op housing move
Finnish Kalevala. When tourists came to the land of 1,000 lakes, the co-op restaurants in Helsinki served stuffed cabbage, onions and great slices of roast beef. In the summer young people danced on the hilltops under the moon. In the winter they leaped from steam baths into snowbanks and shouted that life was good. They ate wild strawberries and boasted of their glass works, their great forests and their splendid modern buildings...
...liberal, farm-minded printer and ten farmers in a barn near Point, Tex. When his miner-engineer-farmer father died in Colorado, young Jim had to support his mother, three sisters, a wife and child, and a mortgaged farm. He worked his way through college, managed a co-op insurance company, taught school, finally became secretary of the Colorado Farmers Union in 1934. In 1940 he became the national president, first on trial basis because he was so young. Big, loose-jointed, boyish-looking Jim was elected to a three-year term this year. Union members in 26 States...
...More than 100,000 students in 160 colleges cut living expenses to 75? a day or less by living in co-op houses, developed since...
...stations, and price cutting took so much of the profit out of gasoline retailing that even a cooperative found it hard to save much in the spread between the wholesale and retail prices of gasoline. So, last year, Cowden got his board of directors to vote for building a co-op refinery. This week, near bleak little Phillipsburg on the Kansas prairies, the new $750,000 plant is making its first run of gasoline. Middle-sized as refineries go, it will supply 40% of C. C. A.'s needs. But Cooperator Cowden was still not satisfied. In November...