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After a week the deer had grown accustomed to being gaped at, was eating the sweet corn and drinking the water lowered daily from the cliff, sleeping on a bale of hay. Hemlock branches and moss were strewn across the five-foot-wide plank bridge, a trail of salt sprinkled across it as a lure. Park officials were deluged with rescue suggestions. One man wanted to put an opiate in the deer's water. Another suggested a jacklight to lure the buck across the bridge at night. A farmer offered to bring a flock of sheep, place them reassuringly...
...Cincinnati. Mrs. Margaret L. Pogue, motorist, extended her arm to give a traffic signal. A bale of straw fell from a passing truck, struck her arm, broke it below the elbow...
Paradoxically the fall of the yen since it went off gold (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) has now produced a nationwide "inflation boom." Silk raisers who received about 1,500 yen per bale of raw silk in 1929 and were forced last July to sell at the "panic price" of 450 yen, now get 900 yen and exult that "silk prices have doubled in the last half year...
Obviously this "doubling" is due almost entirely to the fall of the yen (foreign silk buyers who paid $150 per bale last July now pay $180) but the Japanese silk raiser reaps real benefit from the higher price in depreciated yen because he has not raised the yen-wages of his help. Thus far Japanese food prices have not risen much in yen because the Empire eats chiefly fish and rice produced by yen-paid Japanese. Net result of this situation has been to increase the competitive power of Japanese exporters in world markets, shoot the volume of Japanese exports...
...pondered pages of cotton statis tics. The windows were carefully shaded as they have been ever since someone in the room crooked an instructive finger at a watching crony. When the estimate was finished it was that this year's cotton crop will be 11,310,000 bales. The figure was only negligibly different from August's forecast-up 4,000 bales. Although the crop had deteriorated during the month, farmers, encouraged by rising prices, had not abandoned the usual amount of acreage. Cotton traders, apparently thinking the Government would again give the market a pat by lowering...