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...price of copper slumped from 18? to 8? a pound; U. S. wheat fell from $1.30 to 53? a bushel; cotton from 16? to 6? per Ib.; beef from...
...Most important event of the Metropolitan's week was the revival, after 14 years, of Verdi's Falstaff. To sing its title role, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett donned a five-bushel stuffed stomach and so plastered his face with make-up that only his lips and eyeballs could move. Getting him into his costume took four men an hour and forty-five minutes. Tibbett himself sweated away five pounds during the performance. The audience, delighted by the ingratiating and sophisticated Verdi score, thought the effort worthwhile...
Although the State Department was especially proud of having wangled Britain's removal of a 6?-per-bushel duty on wheat, U. S. traders were inclined to believe that Canadian as well as Argentine dumping programs might negate the importance of the concession. Day after the treaty was signed, Chicago wheat prices actually fell. Lesser disappointments were registered by lumbermen, coal and metal miners, tanners, papermen...
...bumper weather (even the Dust Bowl bloomed this year) than to any serious defect in the Act. But in spite of the most far reaching crop control laws ever enacted, all three major U. S. crops are in trouble. Wheat, with a near-record crop of 940,000,000 bushels and a whopping 300.000,000 bushel carryover in prospect for next year, has stumbled to 50? a bushel on the farm (against $1.25 in 1936). A plan to subsidize export of 100,000,000 bushels has been so snagged by record surpluses abroad that only 10,000,000 bushels...
...instead of bullets!" burst a bag of feathers in the office of Acting Secretary of War Harry Woodring (TIME, Aug. 17, 1936). This time eccentric Hockaday's idea had been to shine the President's shoes for 10?, raise $1.40 more through 14 other shines, buy a bushel of wheat, make 60 loaves of bread, sell them for 10? each and a profit of $4.50-which he would then distribute to baker, miller and middleman...