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...exports. Farm crops were also the chief U. S. export which, in 1940, the rest of the world could not buy. Many farm surpluses in 1940 were higher than ever; for farm prices, "parity" remained just a slogan. Yet farm income for the year was estimated at $9 billions, highest since 1937. Thanks were due less to the production boom than to Government...
Robert Joseph Boltz was born into the world with an asset beyond price-an old Germantown family name. Conservative, religious, ultra-scrupulous in business matters, Philadelphia's Germantown families yield nothing to Boston's Brahmins. Among them the highest recommendation is the simple phrase "He comes from a fine family." Robert Boltz...
...This is the highest and most solemn moment of our war," Italy's chief labor newspaper, Lavoro Fascista, said last week. "The time has come to say to our open and hidden enemies that we have never been prouder of being Italians and Fascisti. . . . That goes also for those Italians who are falser than Greek money and, doubly bastardized, who have not the heart to hold out to victory and who are not worthy of it. With them, fortunately, the accounting is near...
...Chicago Bears are probably the greatest collection of heavily falling stars ever assembled on a U. S. football field. Against Washington, in the play-off for the national professional championship last fortnight, they piled up the highest score (73-to-0) in the 20-year history of the National Professional Football League. "Break up the Bears," growled U. S. fans last week, as they cocked their ears to what was going on behind closed doors in Washington's Willard Hotel...
Leadville, Colo. (pop. 4,774), self-advertised world's highest incorporated city, has seen some fancy goings on from its perch two miles up in the Rocky Mountains. Since the discovery of silver touched off an avalanche of fortune seekers in 1878, its mines have yielded some $600 million in silver, gold, lead, zinc, copper, manganese. Today it is still a rowdy, frontier mining town. Queen of its night life is the Pastime's Blonde Bobbie, who relaxes at the piano between rounds, amazes customers with a repertoire ranging from blues to classics (all played...