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Until he landed in prison on a two-to three-year rap for passing a bad check, John Corpier, 32, thought of himself as "a pretty worthless fellow." The son of a Texas dirt farmer, he left school after the eighth grade, worked at a prewar Civilian Conservation Corps camp...
Though this federal program, plus the drought, has helped to cut the state's wheat acreage in half (present crop: 6,700,000 acres), it has also speeded up a three-year rise in farmland values, and given smart operators a new way to make money. In Morris County...
Mollified Lobby. In another version of the Seaton new look, Ross Lillie Leffler, 70, last week was confirmed by the Senate to fill the new post of Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife. Philadelphia Steelman Leffler assumes control of two equal bureaus devised as partial mollification of the powerful conservation...
Supply & Demand. Amidst the furor, up stepped Hines Baker, president of Humble Oil Refining Co., biggest U.S. domestic producer (300,000 bbl. daily), to make his case for the industry. Humble had supplied almost 50% of all the oil shipped to Europe in November and December-and it was also...
With the theory of Conservation of Parity, however, one would think that "no matter how far you go, you would never find asymmetry in nature, but now it has been shown otherwise."