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...many a U. S. hosteler had done in the past-installed a miniature putting course on his lawns. Finding guests used this more than they did his $340,000 regular course, he made improvements. Tunnels, bunkers, miniature traps were added. Then he invented a putting green made of cotton seed hulls, sure to wear long and well...
...vacant lot could lay out a putting course with only a caddy's knowledge of the game. But Mr. Carter's advertisements warn: "Patent No. 1,559,520 controls and protects the construction, maintenance, sales and use of Putting Greens and Playing Surfaces of Cotton Seed Hulls or any comminuted flocculent vegetable material, either in a natural state or dyed to simulate grass, and with or without an admixture of binding substance...
...land's largest producers of cotton seed oil in the U. S., buys or produces 50% of the total U. S. edible fat production, uses 90% of all whale oil imported into the U. S. Most famed throughout the U. S. is Procter & Gamble's Ivory Soap which is "99 44/100 pure" and "Floats." But P. & G. Naphtha is said to be the largest selling soap in the world. Famed also are P. & G.'s Camay (toilet soap) and Crisco (shortening...
Five-Year Plan. Quoting official Soviet statistics, Comrade Bron shows in his book that the Five-Year Plan, now in its second year, has more than attained its industrial objectives, has fallen somewhat short in persuading the stubborn Russian peasant to plant as much seed as the Government wishes, to sell it at the price fixed by the Government, and to espouse with proper enthusiasm the Government's program of "collective farms" (TIME. Oct. 21, et seq.). Nevertheless 10,530,000 acres are now under collective cultivation...
...fill their depleted beds, the oystermen of Delaware Bay, N. J., go to 1,000,000 acres of Government-protected seed beds: dredge for oyster youngsters, then dump them on the commercial farms. From May 1 to June 1 this harvest is allowed but May 1 is the big day. Since seed oysters, by law, can only be gathered from sunrise to sunset, and since the boats engaging in the act must be sail vessels, the annual stocking-up takes on the nature of a race. Last week promptly at 6 a. m. on May 1 a cannon resounded...