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Further researches revealed to Mr. Brand that Mr. Hoover "saw fit to manipulate the buying forces" during the War, preventing farmers from getting more than $2.20 per bushel for wheat when "otherwise the price would have been $5 to $10 per bushel...
Chicago finance has its delicacies of shade no less fine than those of Manhattan's stock market. Example: last week's "corn & hog parity" got alarmingly out of line. Dollar a bushel corn equals $10 per cwt. hogs or something is wrong in the stock yards. Corn for May delivery passed $1.03¼ a bushel whereas hogs "at Chicago" sold from $6.65 per cwt. undressed. Foreign corn demand has made golden maize too dear for U. S. pigs to eat & grow fat. The pigs must die lean & cheap. Overproduction of litters, weaned on high priced feed, plus...
Wheat jumped from 2¾ to 3⅛ a bushel in Chicago's Pit last week on rumor that Russia, wheat exporting land, had bought 8,000,000 bushels cash grain in a few days and was in the market for more. An international grain house of the first magnitude refused to be quoted by name in its comment...
...long can the candle of genius be hidden under a bushel; the recognizing world catches errant gleams that betray closeted flame, and cries out to know more of the modest great. This has, unfortunately not been true with the Reverend Paul Sterling, MeIrose clergyman who has just revealed himself as the prime mover in Boston's recent campaign of book censorship. In this instance Cinderella herself has been obliged to strike the hour of unmasking...
Besides jack-knives, the White House had an abundance of turkeys (nine of them), ducks, partridges (many a brace), Michigan potatoes (one sack), giant beets (one bushel), South Dakota honey (ten pounds). From Louis Liggett, Bostonian friend of the President, came the millionth rifle manufactured by the Winchester Arms Corp...