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...this time it was too late to shift back to Morley, so the Dramatic Club has decided to go with their two shorter plays, and possibly resurrect "The Trojan Horse" once more for their Spring production
Last week Japan offered subsidies of $20 an acre for the conversion of mulberry groves into cereal patches. The Government wants a 20% shift into wheat, beans and other vegetables which, like mulberry trees, can be grown on Japan's hilly, upland plots. (Rice, the Japanese staple, must be grown under water, takes up most of the Empire's flat, lowland acreage.) Cereals, which hungry Japanese could eat, were obviously better than silk which Japan could not sell...
...test of Republican sentiment, the list of signers to Willkie's manifesto was inconclusive. As a move in the struggle to shift Republican policy away from Isolationism, it promised to be historic. Said Pundit Arthur Krock: "[Willkie] had been marching so long and obediently in the President's foreign policy column . . . that those at the head no longer kept an eye on him. . . . What, therefore, was the surprise and embarrassment of the Generalissimo and his staff when the follower dashed in front of the leader with a following of his own. . . . Mr. Willkie struck at the President...
...feet), her broad beam (119 feet), she has plenty of space for a fine flight deck. Her two working stacks (the third is a dummy) are both fed by flues that run up her sides to her topdeck. It would be a simple job of reconstruction to shift the funnels to the sides. Her four main passenger elevators are grouped in one big shaftway...
...Stagg (his friend and football teammate in their turtleneck days at Yale) and Michigan's Fielding H. Yost (his archrival for 20 years). But the good doctor, who practiced gynecology nine months of the year during his coaching days at Minnesota, conceived many football maneuvers-notably the Minnesota Shift, forerunner of all quick shifts-that played an important part in the development of U.S. football...