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Agriculture, The Farm Board was flayed for "stabilizing wheat from $1.25 per bu. down to 30¢, corn from 75¢ per bu. down to 20¢, cotton from 15?? per Ib. down to 5¢, wool from 20¢ per Ib. down to 7¢" at a public cost of $500,000,000. But Senator Barkley's only concrete suggestions were to lend the farmers more money like "other forms of industry and finance" and to "take the Government out of the dubious adventure of speculation in farm products...
10¢ on 30¢-to-$1-messages-15?? on $1-to-$2; 20¢ on all over...
Postal Telegraph bonds, of which some $50,000,000 are outstanding, last week sold at 15?? on the $1 against a 1932 high of 39¢. In 1931 the company had its gross business fall only 8% against the total drop of 16% in U. S. telegraph business but its cable and wireless business was off sharply...
...court Professor Heckler pleaded that his was neither "a tragedy, comedy, opera, ballet or farce," but an educational institution which has not always been on 42nd Street. He used to play to carnival and fair audiences. For 15?? you can witness an eight-minute performance of Pediculi which the Professor claims is the only one of its kind on earth. He also is willing to roll up his sleeves and exhibit his small performers' pasturage...
...small Pilot Hinkler (5 ft. 4 in.) is best remembered for his 15??-day flight from England to Australia in 1928 (a record which stood for two years), although for years before that he had been doing astonishing things with light airplanes, among them the first non-stop flight from London to Turin in a 35 h. p. Baby Avro. For such exploits he was temporarily dubbed "Sir Jockey." Recently he was accorded casual notice for two remarkable solo flights, both in a light Puss Moth: New York to Kingston, Jamaica; and Natal, Brazil to Bathurst, British Gambia, West Africa?...