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...quiet of its sunny streets; in the town's three taverns, business was slow. El Paso's calm was part of the rhythm of the U.S. heartland; it was planting time. Outside the town, Woodford County's farmers worked 14 hours a day to get their seed kernels into the ground...
Miracle of the Seed. Farmer Pfister (rhymes with Easter) is the biggest U.S. individual grower of hybrid seed corn. This year his six-year-old Pfister Hybrid Corn Co. will gross about $1,500,000, net some $60,000 to $70,000, which Lester...
...Pilkey's attempts to "pack" the Board with Alumni. "No sir," says the Judge, "I shall simply watch you and your school with the amused detachment of one who is in the know, with the Olympian shrug of a former lover watching his ex-mistress go to seed...
...been put together with fish glue. If a man drinks gin, he may suffer an allergy as well as a hangover. Not counting the olive in a Martini, Dr. Swartz lists some of the possible ingredients of gin that may cause an allergy: aniseed, caraway, cardamon, fennel or coriander seed, cinnamon, cloves, calamus root, licorice, orris root, sloeberries, juniper berries, nutmeg, orange or lemon peel...
When he finally took aim at Moscow, he drew the fire of Russian propagandists, who yelped that some of his remarks were "gross and rude slander." He helped fashion the so-called Truman Doctrine and warned Congressmen: "This is a dangerous life and a dangerous world." He planted a seed in a speech at Cleveland, Miss., which, somewhat to his astonishment, blossomed into the Marshall Plan...