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Show Trend Hoiv the wind is blowing . . . AVIATION Round-the-world airplane tickets, placed on sale for the first time, are priced at 51,785 for a trip requiring 14 days, including 11 overnight stops. SHIPPING A total of 165 vessels, ves-sels, aggregating 678,000 gross tons, are under construction in U. S. shipyards, compared with 105 ships weighing 389,000 tons last year at this time. EXECUTION Maj. Edward J. Dyer, retired U. S. army officer, suggested before the Washington Society of Philosophical Research that euthanasia (mercy killing) be adopted for aged indigents, hopelessly insane and diseased persons, children born as monsters mon-sters and first degree murderers. Justification: "One of the Ten Commandments might be modified." modi-fied." CATTLE Because eggs bring only 11 cents a dozen, A. W. Ellsworth, dairy farmer at Hurd, N. D., is feeding his cattle egg-nog, egg-nog, raising the "milk-fed" standard. |