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...Dollar Wheat" a distinct possibility. In fact "Dollar Wheat" was an actuality in the highest grades of grain. Montana Dark was taken for $1.01 in the Seattle pit. A fine hard variety brought $1 at Boise. The Pillsbury Flour Mills at Minneapolis paid $1.03 per bu. for No. i amber durum...
...Chamber was not in session last week, but French Deputies meeting on the boulevards over long amber goblets of Pernod asked each other who was ce petit bonhomme Tourenq who was raising such a riot in the Ministry of Finance. Dust from the Oustric scandal (TIME, Dec. 29, 1930) was still in the air. What, if anything, did small Tourenq know...
...pastures for their cattle, sheep, and swine. They knew how to weave, and probably made their clothing from the wool of their flocks. It is easy to surmise that traders occasionally crossed the plain to the fortress, carrying commodities such as flint and salt, and sometimes rarer things--amber from the distant Baltic, seashells from the Mediterranean, and perhaps, later on, little trinkets of Hungarian copper...
...attract other sportsmen to take out $10,000 memberships in the Grasslands Foundation. Partly it was a genuine attempt to give U. S. horses a test that would show what they might do at Aintrée. Entered were three good English horses-St. Roy, Kilbairn, and Man-amber. Best of U. S. entries seemed to be Stephen Sanford's Mount Etna and Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson's Alligator, winner of many jumping races, including the Meadow Brook, Rose Tree challenge and the Maryland Hunt Cup. Round Peytona Brook and over five fences the bobbing horses...
...homes. These were semi-bootleg sales, unnoticed by the Prohibition Bureau. There was no advertising, only a door-to-door canvass. But last week in Milwaukee there appeared large billboard and full-page newspaper advertisements for a grape concentrate called "Vine-Glo." Beside thin-stemmed glasses of ruby and amber liquids were the words: "You can't buy it from peddlers. Not on sale at any store. Never served in any restaurant-BUT YOU CAN HAVE IT DEPENDABLY AND LEGALLY FOR USE IN YOUR OWN HOME...