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...Life in the Mississippi Valley of the future need not be poverty-stricken or precarious. ... Its quality can be enormously improved. It need not go the way of the valley of the Nile, the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates . . . the stripped valleys of China...
...only a few million short of the company's 1926 high of $15,000,000. During the first ten months, said President Gustavus Franklin Swift, U. S. meat-eaters had consumed nearly three pounds more meat and lard than the year before. The forced marketing of drought-stricken animals had led the company at times to operate "at a rate far beyond what it had always regarded as peak capacity...
...complete reorganization of education in the United States, with a shift in its objectives and a complete change of its center of gravity, may, as some persons believe, be highly desirable; but to bring this about by indirection and more or less unintentionally as a result of panic-stricken effort to mitigate through injudicious taxation the effects of a transient economic crisis, or as the result of a merely emotional assault upon the results of thrift and industry, would be a sorry product of our democratic society and one ruinous to some of the highest values which have been built...
...looked like an unbeatable lead for the Millar money, is a French-Canadian. She and her husband, Matthew, are now on public relief. In twelve years of marriage they have had 14 children, including three sets of twins. Only five children are living. There should be six. The poverty-stricken Kennys occupy a rat-infested house. Last year a rat killed their yearling son Patrick...
...Natural History and an expert on ambergris, explained: "I mean that is bad news for me. It means another barrage of letters from every Tom, Dick & Harry who finds a hunk of rotten fish anywhere along the Atlantic Coast." Last big U. S. find of "ambergris" was by poverty-stricken residents of Bolinas Beach, Calif. (TIME, March 19). Their treasure proved valueless. So do most of the substances-usually soap, wax, paint, tallow, mud, wood, coke, clinkers, decayed fish-with which wild-eyed people rush to chemical laboratories to learn whether they have found the sperm whale secretion which...