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...vexed, vituperative Texas Legislature grappled its cotton problem last week. While the insistent voice of Louisiana's red-headed Governor Huey Pierce Long barked annoyingly through loudspeakers, while the Governors of a half-dozen other cotton Slates waited anxiously to see what the Stale which produces 33% of U. S. cotton would do, Texas repudiated Governor Long's dramatic "Drop-a-Crop" plan and offered to the South a less drastic solution: reduction of the next two years' cotton production to one-half its 1931 level. But first the Texas Legislature paid its respects to its neighboring...
Canadians went to work; 510 miles of railroad were built and ballasted. Fort Churchill used to consist of a half-dozen trappers' huts, a mounted police detachment, a Hudson's Bay Co. factor's post and a dozen moon-faced Eskimos. Later gangs went in and built the temporary town of wooden barracks that is now known simply as Churchill. The harbor was dredged, the wharf was built, a huge grain elevator put up. Churchill last week had mechanical facilities to handle 800,000 bushels of grain a day. About 530,000 bushels will be sent this...
...Angeles, Willie Soslofsky, 13, was arrested for shooting Nicholas Duane. 15. Said he: "We pulled a half-dozen holdups. Then . . . we both jumped for the gun. But I beat him to it. And that's that...
Meantime, Newell and an Indian tried to capture a large Anaconda boa constrictor. It had been Siemel's idea that one of these monsters, which reach a length of 30 ft., could be taken alive by loop-ended poles in the hands of a half-dozen men. Newell and the Indian sought to make a capture alone, but their snake writhed and lashed so powerfully that, in order to protect their own lives, they had to kill...
...horse went over the first fence. At Becher's Brook, Swift Roland fell and was killed when the horse behind him landed on his head. The first time past the stands, Easter Hero was ahead, with Gregalach second and Grakle, Shaun Goilin (last year's winner), Solanum, and a half-dozen others bunched close behind...