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This would still leave the U.S. with plenty of wheat for its own needs: about 255 million bushels for processed foods, 23 million for seed, up to 177 million for livestock feed, and 150 million for the precautionary carry-over into the next crop year. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson hoped to cut livestock consumption enough to boost exports even higher-possibly to 500 million bushels...
While Cramer's methods are a far cry from these of the fabulous thirties, the seed is definitely there. Cramer's office falls within the faculty's definition of a "commercial tutoring school" by (1) giving "assistance in interpreting course reading . . . to students who have not first houestly attempted to do their own work," and by (2) being a place where "notes purporting to condense course lectures and (or) reading may be secured...
...snatch out mesquite. He supplemented this with a "rooter plow" that lifted up a strip of land, killed the mesquite roots and dropped it back with the grass undisturbed. He then turned his hand to grass. Bob's father had brought in South African Rhodes grass. Bob took seed from the best plants, and perfected the strain. Later he developed a fine strain of yellow-beard grass. As one cattleman put it: "Bob developed a breed of cattle to grow fat on grass, then developed the grass to make them...
...that the Royal Family had decided on Edinburgh as a suitable dukedom for their son-in-law. More excitable gossips were aghast at a story that Lord Inverchapel, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., had ordered from a Hollywood firm six pairs of Nylon stockings with clocks of seed pearls as his present to the Princess. In Washington the pained British Embassy promptly scotched that story...
...Pasadena, a California Institute of Technology geneticist declared last week that atomic-bomb radiation does indeed affect heredity. Dr. Ernest G. Anderson displayed some misshapen ears of corn-second-generation descendants of corn seed that had been exposed to radioactivity in the Bikini bomb tests. Said he: the Bikini corn, which produced a large percentage of abnormal offspring, may be a forecast of tragedy to come among the descendants of Hiroshima survivors...