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First step in using the formula is to determine a base price for the 1909-14 period. This is done by averaging farm prices reported to the Department of Agriculture during these years. For example, cotton averaged 12.4? a pound; wheat 88.4?a bushel; corn 64.2? a bushel...
Third step is to adjust the 1909-14 base period prices by the index of prices paid by the farmer. Thus the parity price for cotton in March was 1.79 times 12.4? , or 22.2? a pound; parity price for wheat was 1.79 times 88.4?, or $1.58 a bushel; for corn...
...requires a comic genius as great as Gogol's to handle it adequately. Ex-Navy Lieut. Jesse Stuart (Taps for Private Tussie, etc.) is no Gogol. But he knows Kentucky hill life inside out (he is a native son). His ability to turn what he knows into corn-fattened pathos and good-natured farce makes Foretaste of Glory a very likable book...
...open road, are here again in another of their wonderfully wacky travelogues. And whether their destination is Zanzibar, Morocco, or Utopia, (in this case the gold-laden Klondike), the end-product is the game: a trite but entertaining concoction of gay repartee, old-fashioned slapstick, and straight Iowa corn...
When ex-President Hoover said that Latin America would have to make up Europe's food deficit this year, he was talking about Argentina. Argentina expects to have the wheat (two and a half million tons), corn (three million tons) and, above all, meat (half a million tons) that may make all the difference. UNRRA would have to come to Peró (though Argentina was not even a member), and Argentines knew it. Crowed the Peróist El Laborista: "What would UNRRA do without Argentina...