Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...program, but Harvard came into the picture in 1939, when three graduates who had come to the conclusion that the United States faced a dangerous social strain unless something drastic and constructive were done for the young people of the nation, were put in touch with Professor Rosen-stock-Hussy's project by a mutual Cambridge friend, Mrs. Henry Copley Greene...
Thus did the Atlantic Coast Line launch the 1,500-mile trip of its "Live Stock Development Special." Object: to build Florida's cattle and forest industries, up the State's cash income, and help A. C. L.'s traffic. Less extravagant than it looks, the trip costs A. C. L. only about $5,000. An other $5,000 (for exhibits, advertising, etc.) is borne by Florida's Department of Agriculture. The third partner is University of Florida's Agricultural College, which contributed three months of hard preparatory work, a staff of 20 specialists...
Last week, as it pushed into the central cow country, the Live Stock Special had drawn 19,000 sightseers in 15 towns. This week the inmates, men and beasts, stretched their legs at Arcadia, held a small rodeo. Ahead lay 20 more stops, perhaps another 30,000 visitors. Ahead also, for Florida, lay potential new wealth. Boss of the trip, A. C. L.'s Victor Wallace Lewis, has run such trains thrice before. He ran one through North Carolina in 1930; in the next ten years North Caro lina's livestock traffic increased 400%. Polite, twinkling-eyed...
Three explosions within an hour were a little too much. The U. S. public sat up and took notice. Such official bloodhounds as Congressman Martin Dies had long been shouting "Sabotage!" Maybe Martin Dies really had something. Many a citizen and many a newspaper, taking stock of the past 90 days, was hard put to it to charge off what had happened to the inevitable accidents attendant on speeded-up industrial activity...
Pacing the entire show to the blare of a circus band, Mystery Man Dante whirls through a seething inferno of prestidigitatorial feats, makes stooges disappear right and left, introduces bouncing chairs, eerie levitation, mysterious cabinets, live stock of every description, and even produces beer right out of empty barrels...