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...pleasure to find such a peculiarly clear and understanding discussion of the Navy's war games, nor such sympathetic yet accurate treatment of members of its per sonnel as is contained in the article, mentioned. . . . R. S. PARR Lt. Comdr. U.S.N. (Retired) Cambridge, Md. Panhandle's Drought...
...addition to signing the Stock Exchange Regulation bill and handing one of the pens to Ferdinand Pecora, signing a new Corporate Bankruptcy bill, asking Congress for $525,000,000 for drought relief, signing two Federal crime bills, asking Congress to give Haiti left-over equipment of the U. S. Marines there and planning the wind-up of the session with House & Senate leaders, President Roosevelt went cruising down the Potomac last week on the Sequoia. With him went two baskets crammed full of official papers-each paper a problem. The President was tired, mentally and physically. But there could...
Greatest weather news of the week, however, was the torrential rains which fell upon the drought-parched North Central States. A 3-in. precipitation was estimated by college agronomists to be worth $50,000,000 to desperate farmers. General Midwestern rains prevented utter agricultural disaster but came weeks too late to do any lasting good. On his red-splotched drought map. Relief Administrator Hopkins blocked in 46 more stricken counties in Minnesota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada. Texas. ''The drought area," said he, "no doubt will spread, even though there is more rain...
...anyone who has gone through this drought area can say a kind word for nature's method of crop re- duction," observed Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to an audience of North Dakota farmers at Bismarck. "Man's methods may be full of imperfections . . . but they are perfection itself by comparison. . . ." The rainfall in the Midwest did not deter President Roosevelt in Washington from sending Congress a special message asking for $525,0.00,000 worth of "large-scale assistance" to be parcelled out as follows: 1) $125,000,000 to give farmers without fields work on roads, public buildings...
Business for the nation's storekeepers was better last week. Warm-weather buying gave a little fillip to retail trade, which has just about held its own since April. Merchants in the drought districts, however, were demanding 50% cancellation clauses in their contracts. Carloadings were still nearly 13% above the same week of the year before but loadings of less than carload lots, almost wholly consumer merchandise, dropped 20,000 cars from the week before. Ore & coke for the steel industry, madly piling up inventories in anticipation of strikes, accounted for no small part of the carloading gain...