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...bought up 94% of the deliverable stocks of soybeans in Chicago, then tried to drive the price up by shipping beans out of the Midwest and circulating phony market rumors of a shortage. For a while, says CEA, the scheme worked: prices rose by as much as $1 a bushel, to $4.08. But then, as the new crop started coming in, the price of soybeans cracked to $2.50 a bushel. Meanwhile. Butler was losing heavily in the declining coffee market...
...Type I" wife. She should be "sound of wind and limb," should not have more than a high-school education, and "should not be disturbed by muddy boots in her kitchen, nor by the dogs sleeping under the stove . . . nor the continuous parade of newborn pigs and lambs in bushel baskets by the kitchen stove. She should be farm-reared . . . It takes a woman a long time to learn how to get her weight properly under a bale...
...Massachusetts farmer pledged a bushel-and-a-half of corn toward the construction of Harvard Hall. Although an Indian scalped him before the actual donation, the building was completed in 1677. For the next century it housed the College's social center, library, museum, laboratory, dining hall, and the colonies' largest kitchen...
...Under a Bushel. The rest of the fresh man group (average age: 55) does not stand high in national renown. Two, South Carolina's J. Strom Thurmond and North Carolina's W. (for William) Kerr Scott, 58, have been governors of their states. Of the seven new Republican Senators, all but one are or have been Congressmen. The one: Colorado's Gordon Allott, 47, whose light, as lieutenant governor, has been hidden under the bushel-basket showmanship and popularity of retiring Governor Dan Thornton. Allott, a liberal Republican and onetime Stassen-for-President booster, scored a minor...
...support price for 1955 wheat will be 82½% of parity (the minimum provided by law). This will mean $2.06 per bushel, as against the $2.24 that farmers are now getting under 90% support...