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Simple enough was the explanation-"too much wheat." About 350 million bushels have been carried over from last year's harvest. The winter wheat crop has begun to come in, is estimated from 625 to 650 million bushels...
...Yale's rush-line and for that season became the darling of every Yale football enthusiast. With Rusher Heffelfinger at left of centre and Rusher Stanford Newel Morison (also of Minneapolis) at right of centre, that Yale team plowed a wide furrow through its adversaries from which grew a harvest of lasting football fame. Rushers Heffelfinger and Morison, though, had helpful teammates: John Augustus Hartwell (now a famed Manhattan surgeon) in the line; Thomas Lee McClung (onetime [1909-1912] Treasurer of the U. S.) and Vance Criswell McCormick (Democratic National Committee Chair-man in Wilson's 1916 campaign...
Canada had an 8 cent freight rate advantage over the U. S. to the world market. The U. S. surplus could be moved only at a loss. It was not moving, yet estimates showed that some 200 billion bushels must move before the next harvest...
...know how to do it unless I speak of the life of these comrades of mine." His subjects are in the panorama of Mexican modes and mores. His frescoes are devoted to the city and country laborer, miner, country school teacher, market place, burial, festival, harvest, battle. Satirically bent, he has depicted a dinner table group including John Davison Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan and Henry Ford. Ticker tape winds among the wine glasses. There is a radio loud speaker, a steel safe door, a lamp shaped like the Statue of Liberty, an artificial female in a backless gown. But satire...
...read his Robinson appreciatively, for while he has borrowed the bitter and concisely astringent qualities of Robinson's verse forms, he has no taste for epigram or obscuring his verse with inversions and periphrasis. His poem of the variant life-urge which derives from soil and season and harvest is of the earth earthy, profound and moving...