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...rugged course took a toll of men and machines even before the race. A tiny (1.1-liter) Lotus bounced off a hay bale in a practice run and cartwheeled out of a sharp left turn. Its driver escaped uninjured. The oversize (4.4-liter) Ferrari belonging to Chicago's Jim Kimberly threw its flywheel...
COTTON-CROP SUPPORTS will drop below 90% of parity next year (probably to 80%) for the first time in 13 years. With an 8,000,000-bale store already in Government hands and a bumper 14,663,000-bale crop moving into the glutted market, farmers voted 13-to-1 for 1956 crop quotas to make the best of a poor bargain...
Phrenology appealed to the optimism and confidence of 19th century man, just as psychoanalytical theory appeals to today's pessimism and fear. In this disquieting account of the rise and fall of phrenological "science," Author John D. Davis, onetime professor of history at Smith, has embedded a bale of fun among his footnotes. It is humbling stuff. If today's Pundit Walter Lippmann may be heard announcing Freud as "among the greatest who have contributed to thought," not so long ago President Garfield was having his "head read" and Walt Whitman was proudly reciting a poet...
...cotton prices, which suffered one of their deepest postwar price slumps (as much as $10 a bale) in the futures market a fortnight ago, took another blow last week. The cause: an estimate by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that, despite a 14% acreage cut ordered this year to shore up prices, the 1955 cotton crop will be 2% bigger than 1954's 13,696,000 bales. Good weather, increased use of fertilizer and close planting had boosted productivity; the average acre, by the department's estimate, would yield a "fantastic" 405 lbs. v. 341 last year...
...possible return to Democratic high-price supports, dropped last week in the sharpest break since May 1954. One big reason was an unofficial estimate by the Journal of Commerce that the cotton crop would exceed Government figures; this touched off a reaction which sent cotton plunging $10 a bale for the maximum permissible drop, followed by eggs, corn, soybeans and wheat...