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...such facts as that U. S. citizens have added more than two inches to their stature in the past 50 years, that it requires about $9,000 of capital to make one U. S. job. that one pound of automobile costs considerably less than one pound of butter. Stressing "The American Way" like the other efforts to sell Big Business to the public, the N. W. Ayer copy is reprinted in booklet form for free distribution...
...made a point of telling their followers the worst during the Russian Revolution, Premier Largo Caballero and his Cabinet's strong man Air and Marine Minister Indalecio Prieto splashed out in Madrid papers the grim fact that in Madrid there were no more potatoes, fresh eggs or butter, scant meat or sugar and hardly any milk or olive oil. To these challenges the proletariat rose as 20,000 enlisted to fight as Red Militiamen-in a day and crowds kept milling around the Spanish Lenin's office, causing Largo Caballero to emerge from time to time...
Closer to home were graver distractions. Butter prices were skyhigh. New Yorkers at Buffalo, where butter was selling at 37? per Ib., were crossing to Fort Erie, Ont., buying the stuff for 24? per Ib. in spite of a vigilant campaign by U. S. customs agents against butter-legging. High butter prices did not indicate prosperity for Bossy's boss. On the contrary, drought has parched pastures of New York's great Mohawk Valley, sent feed prices up as much as 70%. Hard as it might be on city folks, it looked as if the dairyman would have...
...distributor to buy or a retailer to sell milk below prices set by the Agricultural Commissioner. Under these regulations wholesale milk prices varied according to the use the milk was put to. Drinking milk was in one class, brought $2.45 per cwt.* Milk to be made into ice cream, butter, cheese brought from $1.20 to $1.90. On the average, after deductions for freight and handling many a farmer netted only about...
...registered the sharpest weekly gain since the 1933 inflation scare. Only items likely to be depressed by drought are meat and hides, and those only temporarily. Slaughtering of cattle in drought areas increases the immediate supply. No trade was more agog about the commodity boom last week than the butter market. Like eggs, butter has an annual cycle in prices and production. Production of both butter and eggs touches bottom in November and December, then rises to a spring peak, eggs in May, butter in June, when pastures are usually greenest. Consequently butter prices are generally lower in summer than...