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Rosenbaum Grain Corp. has one of the largest storage capacities (18,000,000 bu.) of any grain house in the U. S. On busy days fast-talking Manny Rosenbaum. a cigaret hanging on his nether lip, keeps the grain pit lively with his orders. On dull days the pit brokers sometimes amuse themselves at his expense by parodying the German melody "O Tannenbaum" with loud choruses of "O Rosenbaum, O Rosenbaum...
Every broker knew what the "peculiar circumstances" were: with 4,000,000 bu. of wheat, rye, corn and oats, Rosenbaum Grain Corp. had gone to the wall the previous afternoon. The scarcity of wheat caused by Drought had eaten into Manny Rosenbaum's warehouse business. Income from storing other people's wheat (1½? a month per bu.) had sunk out of sight; in its place was a heavy drain on cash for upkeep and taxes. And loans from banks were large. Rosenbaum Grain Corp. filed petitions in Delaware's and Chicago's Federal Courts...
...high hurdles--Won by Green (H); second, Kickham (BU); third, Henderson (NU); fourth, Hakanson (NU); Crawford (H). Time--15 1-5 sec. (new record...
...farmers had planted 44,306,000 acres in winter wheat last autumn, said the report. Drought and dust had forced them to abandon 12,405,000 acres. The wheat standing on the remaining 31,901,000 acres on April 1 was estimated to yield 435,499,000 bu.- 69% of normal. That was slightly more than last year's yield, but far below the 618,000,000-bu. average of the last five years. East of the Mississippi, and particularly in the Ohio Valley where the soil was moist, crops were in good condition. But west of the river...
...friends were sure that the speculator who, once a $7-a-week stockboy in Chicago's Marshall Field's, had made $1,500,000 in corn in a single month and ten years ago cornered more wheat than any man in history (about 20,000,000 bu.), would appeal his case or transfer his trading activities to Canada where he was born. But later that day Speculator Cutten declared laconically: "What's the use of trading? The market doesn't move...