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...third year in succession he has a major surplus to fight. Last year wheat was the most acute headache, year before it was cotton, this year corn. This week he had to face the music. On August 1 came due the loans of 57? a bushel which he made to farmers who put under seal part of their last year's crop...
With corn at 40?, farmers who had borrowed 57? a bushel on 257,000,000 bu. started to unload about 100,000,000 bu. on Commodity Credit Corp. Hurriedly Secretary Wallace bought steel bins to hold 50,000,000 bu., hoped this would prop up the sorry corn market...
Commodities: The commodity price index fell again to 75.6, a new 1939 low. Leading the commodity retreat was wheat, reacting over 3? a bushel from the fading of spring's normal crop scare news. The wheat crop will be short, but 1938's prodigious carryover (153,537,000 bushels, which will reach an estimated 275,000,000 bushels in a month) is hanging over the wheat pit, giving farmers a double loss through a low price on a small crop...
Most good playwrights get a break, but screenwriters are under a big bushel. Most screenwriters with big names made them elsewhere, like Ben Hecht, Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker. Some, like Grover Jones and Frances Marion, have big names in Hollywood that mean little to outsiders. Others, like Wesley Ruggles' Claude Binyon or Frank Capra's Robert Riskin, won fame as co-members of celebrated director-writer teams. Still others, like Darryl Zanuck and Alfred Hitchcock, got their glory in bigger jobs. As compensation for their comparative obscurity, screen authors work more steadily than playwrights and generally make more...
...ballet company to play their works. He installed a recording system, made phonograph records of students' lopsided sonatas and sway-backed symphonies, so that they could study their faults over & over again. Nine years ago Director Hanson held a Festival of American Music at which he conducted a bushel or so of new U. S. music. The festival was so successful that it was repeated every year...