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...more thing he was to do for her. The old commercial paper house of Goldman, Sachs had grown wealthy and mighty during 30 years, floating the securities of companies that became great-Sears, Roebuck, General Cigar, Studebaker, Cluett Peabody, Woolworth, Endicott Johnson, Postum, Continental Can, May Department Stores, Pillsbury Flour, National Dairy Products, Goodrich Rubber, Lambert Pharmacal, Gimbel Brothers, Warner Brothers. Goldman Sachs had a bright partner named Waddill Catchings, Tennessee-born Harvard graduate who had been by successive and increasing turns lawyer, steelman and J. P. Morgan assistant in purchasing supplies for the Allies during the War. In December...
...Handle of the Wallace pitchfork is the Secretary's power to tax. To raise money to pay land rents and Domestic Allotment "benefits" he may levy on every bushel of wheat the miller turns to flour, on every pound of pork and beef the packer turns to ham and steak, on every quart of milk and cream that go into butter and cheese, on every pound of cotton the spinner makes into cloth. This processing tax, heart of the Roosevelt relief scheme, is a variable quantity which the Secretary of Agriculture adjusts to bring farm prices...
Processors Taxed. Also provided was a means of raising the millions & millions to pay farmers for better obedience to the law of supply & demand. The Secretary of the Treasury was to collect a tax, fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture, on the processing of wheat into flour, cotton into cloth, hogs into ham, corn into meal, milk into butter. This tax, which processors were expected to pass on to consumers, must "equal the difference between the current average farm price for the commodity and [its] fair exchange value"- that is, pre-War parity. Thus the wheat processing tax last month...
...Released an avalanche of white & black bread, baked from flour previously stored in State warehouses (partly against the possibility of war with Japan), which was offered for sale without restriction or food cards last week in 50 Moscow Soviet stores. Instanter lines formed in front of every store (one line was estimated by correspondents at 1,100 persons). Nonchalantly the all-powerful State intimated that avalanches of candy, canned meat, canned vegetables and canned fish might be released from the same or additional stores at any moment...
...Paul, Irish, German, resents bombast of Minneapolis, Swedish: result, cat-&-dog squabbles beyond count. To restore faith in TIME, move Kellogg back to east side of Mississippi, rescue proud Peace-Pact spirit from uneasy wanderings among flour mill tycoons...