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Seven years ago the Department of Agriculture's Beltsville, Md. Research Center, at Wallace's suggestion, began crossbreeding Holsteins, Jerseys, Red Danes and Guernseys. Using only high-grade stock, continuously enriched by new genes from well-pedigreed sires, they produced 32 two-breed hybrid cows which averaged 12,842 pounds of milk and 592 pounds of butterfat a year, well above their mothers' production, and five three-breed crosses which did even better: 14,837 pounds of milk and 645 pounds of butterfat. (U.S. average for good non-hybrids: 8,500 pounds of milk; 350 pounds...
Like the burly hero of a Grade-B Western, A.F.L. Union Boss Herbert Knott Sorrell took on ten of Hollywood's major studios last week, and won out. In a two-day strike, the 7,000 "off-production"* workers of Sorrell's young, tough Conference of Studio Unions won every wage-&-hour demand, including a 25% increase in base pay. For the first time in Hollywood history, studios will guarantee their off-production workers, by far the biggest part of their staffs, a work week. This meant that any time these employes are called to work they must...
Back in 1916, tiny, tidy Emily Griffith was a red-haired eighth-grade schoolteacher in a poor district of Denver. Distressed because so many boys & girls were dropping out of school, she went to their homes to learn why. They were needed as breadwinners. Too often, their parents had lost jobs because they were illiterate or unskilled. The children could get work while they were young, but one day they would be in the same fix. Emily decided to start a "second chance" school for adults -to prove that opportunity always knocks twice...
...sixth grade, Alpine, Texas lad and his companion were keenly disappointed upon learning, at the Dean's Office, that application could not be made until the senior year in high school. Especially perturbed was Howe, who had just told Tommie, "They usually get you in this place before you're born...
...Goes My Love (Skirball-Manning, Universal), based on Hiram Percy Maxim's reminiscences of his inventor parent (A Genius in the Family), is a sort of utility-grade Life with Father, told chiefly in terms of what it does to Mother. Time & place: Brooklyn, in its mansard-capped prime. Since Son Percy (Bobby Driscoll) is a regular little heller and Father (Don Ameche) a regular social booby trap, life is anything but simple for Mother (Myrna Loy). Finally one of Percy's pranks almost causes her to lose her second baby. But by dint of widespread praying...