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...said to have considered Nat Murray's crop estimates better than the U. S. Government's. His record for accuracy is best illustrated by the fact that the average of. his final crop predictions over an eight year period matched the Government's final estimates almost to a bushel...
...women and a gift of gab, but the police were after him. On the little Polish steamer in which Sandy and Greta made their getaway from Ireland was a mysterious party of five Englishmen. Leader was Andrew, brilliant bachelor Oxford don, who hid his heroic light under a staid bushel. Andrew was the type of true adventurer, as Sandy was of the shoddy. The expedition's real purpose was not, as given out, to search for butterflies along the Baltic coast, but to hunt through northern Siberia, with or without Soviet permission, for a saintly German scholar...
...farms the last bushel of wheat had been threshed, the last shock of corn stacked, the last apple picked, the last potato dug last week when the Department of Agriculture issued its final estimates of the 1934 harvest. Production of field crops was 32% below the average for the past ten years but prices were up 42% from last year, 140% from 1932. Farm value of field crops was $4,800,000,000 as against $4,100,000,000 last year...
...Conference was sure last year that if acts of God or man greatly reduced world wheat production?as they indeed have?the price of wheat in terms of gold would rise. Instead last week world wheat was at 55.6 gold cents per bushel, or almost exactly where it was a year ago. Only where farmers have been bamboozled by making money worth less does wheat seem to them to be worth more. Still inoperative are clauses in last year's wheat agreement which were to reduce tariffs should the price climb even to a measly 63 gold cents...
...spread which infers that the use of Gafoozlers' shaving cream will lead to business success, or that a given mouthwash will end social disappointments, or that 20 mail-order music lessons will make a Philharmonic performer out of a saxophone player who couldn't carry a tune in a bushel basket...