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Metcalf added to the squeeze; he acquired 125,000 bu. of May futures for himself and family. (Later, said the report, General Foods executives forced him to resign because of his side speculation...
Furthermore, the unrealistic corn-hog price ratio that had kept so many hogs on the farm, and so much corn going into them in the last year or so, was done for. Cash corn soared from $1.46½ to $2.25 a bu. at Chicago, far too high to make it profitable to feed it to hogs. Instead, it came off the farms (1,000,000 bushels...
Rise in Wheat. The rise in wheat was equally spectacular. Cash wheat in Chicago, at $2.18¼ a bu., up from $1.97, was the highest since 1920. Even with the bumper crops expected this year, most grain traders think that wheat will stay up there because of the world demand. Moreover, farmers were having a tough time getting their grain to market. The shortage of railroad cars had forced many of them to pile it up in the open fields alongside the tracks (see cut). At week's end, drenching rains had spoiled half the grain stored in some...
...veterans-new and old-are eligible for the two remaining games on the spring schedule, BU and Yale," Samborski declared last night, "and all students-veterans and civilians-will be able to play in the games arranged for the summer term." However, any veteran who attended another college as a civilian will not be able to perform against Boston University and Yale...
...than become a machinist, as his father wanted. He went to Florida and worked on a tomato farm, where he got the idea for the seedling business. At 17, he returned to Tifton, started to raise plants. First year's yield: 35 Ibs. of cabbage seed, some 350 bu. of potatoes...