Gist and Coots Discuss Plains Prosperity in Midland
John M. Gist and G. B. Coots of Texas praise West Texas grass, cotton, and feed crops while noting cattle shortages. They describe moving 150 purebred Hereford head from Kansas back to Texas and discuss calf prices, bull sales, and financing through the War Finance Corporation amid mixed cattle demand.
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West
John M. Gist
Southwest
Kansas
Gist
War Finance Corporation
New Mexico
Old Mexico
Corporation
G. B. Coots
Dalhart
Mr. Gist
Amarillo
Amarillo Claim On Missouri Slogan Origin
An Amarillo elder recalls that the saying I'm from Missouri you will have to show me originated in Amarillo in 1892 during a poker game. The teller describes Al and McKinney at a cattle town table with four kings and a declared need to see the kings, cementing local lore.
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Missouri
Amarillo
Texas
of McKinney
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Birth control doctrine spreading in Japan
Rising prices and a soaring rice market push birth control ideas across Japan. Police historically crack down on such propaganda as dangerous thoughts, while advocates Baroness Ishimoto and Prof. Abe of Waseda University face intensified scrutiny amid widening, low-paid bachelorhood and growing family pressures.
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Japan
United Press
Tokyo
Ishimoto
Abe
Waseda University
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