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Corn. Present estimate for this year's corn crop is 2,549,000,000 bu.-109,000,000 bu. less than estimated a month ago but a billion more than last year. At present prices of 63? a bushel for December corn in Chicago, the crop is worth about $1,606,000,000. Last week, with this huge harvest due to begin pouring on the market about Oct. 1, by a freak of commerce the corn futures market on the Chicago Board of Trade was threatened by the tightest "natural squeeze" or corn shortage in years. This...
Markets 6 Exchanges-War was apparently only one of many reasons for the slump in the New York Stock Exchange (see p. 57), but other Exchange excitement could be laid entirely at war's door. Wheat jumped 3? a bushel one day on the Chicago and Winnipeg markets on a general war scare. Japanese bonds, in spite of a rally, stood 15 points below their price three weeks ago-a pain to U. S. banks which hold them as collateral for loans to Japan...
...some of the smaller towns of this Slate. If a farmer goes to town with a load of peaches or watermelons they take his finger prints like he was a criminal. Some peddlers have learned to drive by the Mayor's home and leave a big watermelon or bushel of peaches. Then things are hunka dory. Insurance men get in a town and make a stand in with those in power then they keep others out. The first insurance man is allowed to peddle his insurance under the pretext that he is a local...
...send men out from my orchard to sell fruit and instruct them in one of these hard-boiled towns to be sure and leave the Marshal and Mayor a bushel of fruit...
...Senators to endorse Lucky Strike cigarets at $1,000 an endorsement. Newshawks scurried here & there buttonholing Senators to pin the story down. They made a lucky strike when they ran into North Carolina's Reynolds. Senator Reynolds, never one to hide his light under a bushel, admitted that he had endorsed Lucky Strikes, collected $1,000. Newshawks were surprised for two reasons: 1) most North Carolinians smoke Camels, their State's most famed product, as a matter of pride; 2) they could not recall seeing Senator Reynolds smoke any brand but Camels. Senator Reynolds admitted that he smoked...