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...borrow 45? a bu. on it from the Government. If the price of corn rises, the farmer can sell it at a profit and pay off his loan. If the price of corn falls, the Government will take the corn and cancel the loan. With 45? sure in pocket, Iowa's corn huskers can count on a minimum return of $168,000,000 for this year's crop compared to $159,000,000 last year...
...choruses generally draw big audiences, Manager Sol Hurok ran little risk when he imported the Moscow singers, sent them out to tour. But risks have never frightened that ebullient impresario who arrived in the U. S. 32 years ago, knowing no English and with less than $2 in his pocket. Young Sol Hurok peddled needles & pins, worked in a mattress factory, a bottle factory, a crockery store, heard music whenever he could. When a Brooklyn charity wanted to give a series of concerts Sol Hurok undertook to engage the artists. At 21 he rented huge Madison Square Garden, offered concerts...
...only did Germany thus admit the existence of a General Staff but the German Navy announced no less frankly that the two new pocket battleships now under construction will not be "pocket" (10,000 tons or under) at all, as provided by the Versailles Treaty, but thoroughgoing capital ships of 26,000 tons each. Also forbidden to have submarines, Germany has already launched a dozen of 250 tons each, has sent them out with its Baltic Fleet...
...photograph of the husband-killer in the electric chair. That picture, called by Editor & Publisher "the most sensational ever seen in America's press," was obtained by Photographer Tom Howard, who wore a tiny camera strapped to his ankle, had a remote-control cable release in his pocket, gave the film a six-second exposure from his seat twelve feet from the chair. Newshawk Howard was given a $100 bonus, a trip to Havana for his pains...
...monastic windows of Leverett's dining-room stood a young woman, of no apparent decision, waiting, perhaps, for a streetcar. Clutching her hand was what the biblical writer must have been thinking of when he referred to the little child that shall lead them. But the infant, vest-pocket edition though he was, knew a good man when he saw it. As the first Dunsterman strolled past the obscure pair, the child looked up ever so brightly and said, "Hello, papa!" Somewhat startled at this bland impeachment, the gentleman hurried on, only to hear the challenging greeting flung...