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...French cellars lies a surplus of more than 100,000,000 gallons of "green juice," for this year's crop was uncomfortably bumper. "Hitherto we have never attempted to market the 'green' product," said a spokesman for the French vintners last week, "but that was only because the buyers have always preferred that it be made into wine in France. If the Americans prefer, all our classic vintages can be shipped green, and, as they say, 'developed' in their homes...
This was a long-heralded campaign begun by Fruit Industries, Inc., an association of California grapemen backed in their effort to dispose of a bumper crop by a $1,300,000 loan from the Federal Farm Board (TIME, Oct. 20). At once Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock was besieged with queries. Previously he had said: "Wine may be made in the home for use in the home." Then, when that remark received wide publicity, he had said: "It is all a question of intent. . . ." Following that, his men had obtained the indictment of nine California grapemen for advertising that...
...Explanation: Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition and good friend of Director Woodcock, is counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. Fruit Industries Inc. is an affiliate of the California Grape Control Board whose members were, at the moment when Director Woodcock spoke, harvesting a bumper grape crop of 870,000 tons, representing an investment of some $300,000,000. Of this crop 450,000 tons, enough to make 67,000,000 gal. of juice, were wine grapes. To market this vast amount, the Grape Control Board had announced in the September Produce News that...
Significance. In 1913 Russian wheat exports were 450,000.000 bushels. Last week U. S. experts still spoke in terms of 45,000,000 bushels as the maximum possible Russian export for 1930. In Moscow itself Soviet statesmen, cheered by returns showing that Russia's present "bumper crop" is 10% to 12% greater than last year, spoke of a possible export surplus of 90,000,000 bushels, one-fourth of the 1913 figure. If this actually "small" Russian export can break the bottom out of wheat prices, the underlying cause must be some concealed "big" factor. It is this...
Bishop Cannon rose in the middle of a heated debate, used his crutch as bumper against the crowding audience, stalked from the room. A shouted controversy accompanied his flight...