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Notably exempt from increases were: all kinds of grains, rice, flour, meal, hay, alfalfa, straw, cotton, fresh fruits not mentioned above, potatoes, peas, beans, flaxseed, sugar beets, horses, cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, logs, fuel wood, railroad ties, excelsior, sawdust. No increases would be permitted on any carload to exceed by 10% the present maximum rates...
...Prohibition Reform. Little country boys of the 4-H Club were housed with the rabbits and poultry in the nearby "Highlands," a onetime funpark. Their eyes popped open a little wider at the exhibit of Milwaukee's ever-hopeful Pabst Corp.: an oldtime saloon, complete with brass rail, sawdust, shiny glassware...
Side Show (Warner). The romance of the circus, the glamour of sawdust, calliopes, and spangles has long been celebrated in song & story but particularly in stories written for the cinema. This one follows the accepted outline. It gives glimpses of a circus train in motion; a plump bibulous circus-proprietor; a moth-eaten lion ; a fight in which the circus performers are attacked by the population of a small town and they defend themselves with brickbats and fists, shouting the traditional "Hey, Rube!" loudly and frequently. The local color is not new but it is fairly well done. The story...
...Graber's tendency to forget. Then Graber began to trot forward, slowly, easily: suddenly his body swung up, over the knot of people, poised above them for a second at a wildly reclining angle in midair. Then he straightened, shot clear, dropped into a limp heap on the sawdust pile. The crossbar, placed at the height for a new intercollegiate record of 14 ft. ½ in., shivered but did not fall. A few minutes later, versatile Barney Berlinger of Pennsylvania (TIME, May 4), broke a tie for second place and Southern California had won the meet?46% points to Stanford...
...sawdust trail is winding westward and Billy Sunday, saver of souls, is on his way. Behind him Sodom's smoke curls lazily skyward while a new city rises from the ashes. The surviving policeman declares himself lost in the new order, for he finds the wheels of authority greased with brotherly love rather than with the customary smooth oil of corruption...