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...birth the average U. S. child weighs 7½ lb., contains 270 bones, measures just 20?? in. from top to toe. Its stomach holds 1 oz. of food, the capacity increasing to 6 oz. in six months. At 3 weeks its diapers must be changed 13 times a day; at 3 months 20 times. It begins to crawl at 9 months, toddles and babbles words on the first day of its second year. At 3 the child can name keys, knives, pencils and answer correctly whether it is boy or girl. At 6 it can count to 13, distinguish nickels, dimes...
...York and Philadelphia stores as an experiment. The ice cream will be sold as A. & P's own brand under the name Yukon Club. In addition several novelties made by Eskimo Pie Corp. (controlled by U. S. Foil Corp.) will be handled. The price will be 20?? a pint against a current competitive price of around 30?...
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...
...other Great Power can currently show, even on paper, such a surplus. During March moreover the pound sterling gained 20?? on international exchange and held this gain last week. In Budapest His Serene Highness Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, would have been well justified in raising his tranquil "sea" eyes and drinking again to England...