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...changed the economy of the grain-growing West. But today the cotton crop is harvested exactly as it was when Eli Whitney invented his cotton gin-by Negroes moving between the rows of plants, plucking the fluffy bolls by hand and stuffing them into huge bags which the pickers drag behind them. An average picker bags about 100 Ib. of seed cotton a day, for which, if he is hired by a plantation owner, he may, in good times, receive as much as a dollar...
Cadet MacArthur did graduate first in his class but why drag in Summerall who graduated No. 20 and Pershing who graduated No. 30 in his class...
...firmament of Hollywood, gives an excellent, performance as an easy-going, devil-may-care sort of girl who knows that in the long run the cards are stacked in her direction. In her acting she reveals a sense of humor that should take her far. The picture does not drag, although it is a long show and is very ably directed...
...might be with the missing Memorial Hall bell clapper now if a member of the Yard Police hadn't surprised the group of roaring rowdies, fresh from the muskrat slaughter in the Yard. But their efforts to roll him, drag him, scrape him away ended ignominiously in the safety of a speeding...
...company on the wrecked plane in taking photographs,* and minimizing unfavorable photographs and reference in stories of the crash. By giving all the information possible immediately, of the incident, the story will be covered in one issue and the papers will have nothing to write about to drag it along for several days...