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...writing stories that grew "as mushrooms grow in a meadow, where the roots of some old tree are buried under the earth." When they won him the attention of the wealthy Peabody family, he was so unused to human companionship that he entered their drawing room "pale and stricken," picked up a knickknack from the table to soothe his agitation but found that his hand was trembling so, he almost dropped...
Stocks not worth the paper they are printed on are sometimes traded on the New York Stock Exchange but they are usually quoted in pennies. Last week a stock selling for $12 per share was stricken from the board on the voluntary confession of the company that its shares were worthless. The company was Connecticut Railway & Lighting, which has 89,772 shares of common outstanding, besides 81,429 of preferred which were not affected by last week's action...
...balcony to speed the 5,000 parting guests with one of his most felicitous impromptu speeches. Not all of it could be heard above the laughter and applause but deafening cheers greeted His Majesty's remark: "We in England need this rain less than the drought-stricken portions of Canada." Before drifting away the Canadians sang the refrain For He's a Jolly Good Fellow! and God Save the King over & over...
...young graduates, Dr. Isador Jerome Hauser, published a third analysis of the G family which, now in its sixth Michigan generation, numbers 305 living and dead. In the American Journal of Cancer Drs. Hauser and Weller note that all members of this family have good reason to fear being stricken by the age of 25. Of the 174 living and dead who reached that age, 41 (23.6%) developed cancers of one sort or another. One noteworthy fact about this ill-fated family is that 20 of the men, six of the women died of cancer of the stomach...
...more slowly. Cattle need water, need feed even more. Since 70%, of all crops go for forage, U. S. farms mainly serve as meat factories. Last week the beef cattle situation, though it made no great headlines, was causing the Department of Agriculture its principal worry. Throughout the stricken cattle country water holes and ponds had dried into cakey mud. Unless farmers could raise a bumper autumn crop of forage, which seemed unlikely, cattle would die by droves this winter. One of the states hardest hit by the drought of 1934, which reduced the total U.S. cattle herd some...