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...admired each present-beginning with the red toy automobile, the gift of William Jeffers, president of Father's railroad. But in all the 250-odd gifts and the bushel baskets of letters, and telegrams, nothing was so satisfactory-not even the fuzzy kangaroo-as the presents from his parents, which Nubbins had particularly asked for: the wooden freight train, the toy jeep, the candy-filled locomotive. "It was a Christmas," said his father, "that little boys dream...
...commodity exchanges the approach of war's end and the prospects of record crops scared traders into dumping their futures contracts. Wheat prices slumped some 4? a bushel, oats 10? and rye 14?. But paradoxically Latin American producers of foodstuffs were cheered by the nearness of German defeat. In Brazil, Colombia and Cuba, sellers rebelled at contracting ahead for delivery of coffee, cocoa and sugar at U.S. ceiling prices. They expect a rush of orders, at good prices, from Europe...
...Midwest grain markets' persistent selling of futures forced wheat prices to less than parity despite CCC buying intended to shore up prices in face of the record crop. At week's end wheat was 18? a bushel under the 1944 high, but still 10? higher than last year...
...farmer was being rescued again by the War Food Administration. Fresh from its six-month egg-buying spree which supported egg prices-much to the housewife's disgust-WFA started buying wheat last week. Under the pressure of forecasts of a billion bushel crop, wheat prices had sagged to a 1944 low. But a thumping two million bushel order placed in Kansas City and Minneapolis by WFA snapped prices up four cents a bushel...
...Coney Island. Critics were unable to down the suspicion that Composer Antheil had paid careful attention to the music and success of Dmitri Shostakovich. In any event, the work proved what some of his friends have long suspected: that the talent Antheil has hid under a bushel of estheticism is one of the most robust and various in modern music...