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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvesting the fattest cotton crop since 1931-32, Georgia farmers last week faced a scarcity of pickers. Results...
Corn. Present estimate for this year's corn crop is 2,549,000,000 bu.-109,000,000 bu. less than estimated a month ago but a billion more than last year. At present prices of 63? a bushel for December corn in Chicago, the crop is worth about $1,606,000,000. Last week, with this huge harvest due to begin pouring on the market about Oct. 1, by a freak of commerce the corn futures market on the Chicago Board of Trade was threatened by the tightest "natural squeeze" or corn shortage in years. This...
Wheat. With a crop now estimated at 885,950,000 bu., largest since 1931, and last week's price of $1.05 a bu., the U. S. wheat crop is worth about $1,000,000,000. Wheat has already been harvested, so the department estimate is pretty sure to be right. Including last year's 90,000,000-bu. carryover, wheat on hand amounts to 975,950,000 bu. of which some 775,000,000 bu. will be needed in the U. S. With 200,000,000 bu. more to dispose of, the U. S. may become an important...
Previously, a buffet lunch was served to the 302nd crop of Harvard students and a sprinkling of gentlemen of unidentified classes. After withstanding and returning the individual curiosity of one another and the Union waitresses the guests retired to the floor of the main dining hall which grew ever harder as the reception progressed...
...military "Colonels' clique" that dominates Warsaw, immediately suppressed every Warsaw paper that attempted to print the Paderewski manifesto (which compelled the secret circulation of the manifesto hand-to-hand), and replied to Paderewski's demand for the cessation of reprisals against the Peasant Party with a new crop of arrests...