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...National Cornhusking Championship. They cheered and stomped lustily as, with pheasants whirring up out of the sere corn rows and the yellow ears whacking against the bangboards, Husker Sherman Henriksen of Lancaster County, Nebraska, beat 16 competitors, including the champions of Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota, with a net load of 27.62 bushels in the allotted 30 minutes...
...famed Scottish lawyer, son of a Scottish parson, Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy, co-author of the brilliant "Macmillan Report" of the British Treasury Committee on Finance & Industry. So sound and lucid was it that it became the only Blue Book ever published in Britain to net a profit. Second member of the Commission was another son of a Scottish parson, Sir Charles Addis, onetime director of the Bank of England. These two Scotsmen Premier Bennett balanced with two Canadian bankers, Sir William Thomas White and Beaudry Leman. To give Western Canada a voice he threw in Premier...
...Wales. Time & again municipal polls have shown how His Majesty's subjects would vote in their next national election for members of the House of Commons. Five years ago, in November 1928, bumbling conservative Stanley Baldwin seemed fairly secure as Prime Minister, but the Labor Party scored a net gain of 188 municipal council seats and six months later Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald won Labor's greatest victory in the general election of May 1929 and sent Mr. Bald win packing. Again three years ago the tide was seen to turn when Labor suffered a net loss...
...American Rolling Mill 312D 1,821D Remington Rand ... null 1,301D Bendix Aviation .... 1,096 367D U. S. Steel 28,0740 54,542D General Outdoor Advertising QiQD 1,6970 National Steel 2,569 1,308 Coca-Cola 8,342 8,802 The Bureau of Railway Economics reported the net operating revenue of 149 Class 1 railroads for the first nine months up to $340,000,000 from $197,000,000 a year ago. Whereas most oil companies did not show nine-month improvement over 1932, most of them showed better profits for the third quarter than for the second quarter...
...career. When he and Chuck Connors meet on a barge to settle their differences with their dukes one is treated to a really good exhibition of gory slaughter. All the variety and all the bloodlines of the actual time and scene is presented to us; it may net be altogether authentic, but it is interesting. The only really bad parts of the picture are those involving Jackie Cooper, who should surely be removed from the screen. He is disgusting sentimental, and has not a single Varity to recommend him to any except the varies old maid...