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...began several weeks ago when Trader Howell remarked, "If corn isn't worth more than 50 cents a bushel, I'm willing to lose money buying it." He bought, mostly around that price, until early last week he was reported to have 70% of the visible corn supply in his possession (5,000,000 bushels out of a total supply of 6,813,000). By the morning of July 30 deliveries were pouring in to him, and 157 carloads of corn were standing on the tracks consigned to the firm buying for him. The shorts, whose July contracts...
...Board would give no specific answer. It belligerently maintained a broad right to sell as much as the market would absorb without a major price decline, despite the fact that it would lose 30^ at current prices on each & every bushel thus sold. To the pleadings of Senator Watson that all wheat be withheld from sale, greying, strong-jawed James Clifton Stone, the Board's harassed chairman, turned a deaf ear. The Board, he said, would follow its selling policy regardless of political clamor...
...What decimal part of 2 bushels, 3 pecks and 4 quarts is 1 bushel, 3 pecks, 1 quart and 1 pint...
...long, 5 ft. wide and 3 ft. 7 in. deep?how many bushels of wheat will it contain, allowing 2,150 cubic in. to the bushel...
...Gigant, the largest farm on earth, so badly run that Correspondent Knickerbocker estimates a loss in "real dollars, not paper rubles" to the Soviet Government of $750,000 last year. . . . Verbhid or "Camel" where it costs only 67¢ to produce a bushel of grain as against 87¢ at Gigant...