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Last week the Southwestern wheat harvest was clogging Gulf ports. Kansas farmers were dumping their crops on the market. At Galveston a rail embargo had been declared. "HOLD YOUR WHEAT!" cried the Federal Farm Board in Washington as the fear grew that the lake ports would next be stuffed with an excessive harvest. Said Chairman Legge: "It seems unfortunate to crowd wheat on the market faster than existing facilities can handle it, resulting in cash prices much lower than contract prices for future delivery...
...Editor of Brazil's O Estado de Sao Paulo sat reading a copy of TIME. He thought back to the hectic week when millions of Brazilians were positive that delectable "Miss Brazil" would be crowned "Miss Universe" at Galveston, Tex. He remembered how the whole Rio and San Paulo press printed "sure thing" predictions, relying on despatches from leading U. S. news services. Rio got the impression that Manhattan males were well nigh frenzied over "Miss Brazil," that her progress through the U. S. was like the triumph of a Roman Emperor. Even Rio's carefully edited Cerreio...
Ruffling the pages of TIME, the editor of O Estado saw that, a week before the Galveston pulchritude show, TIME, conscious of the high hopes in Brazil, had said...
...Whether Brazilian editors knew it or not. Miss Brazil was but one of many Manhattan arrivals from far lands for the Galveston contest. Her presence, like theirs, received nothing more than routine mention, even in the tabloid press...
...next morning by Herr Goldarbeiter, ethereal Lisl's father, in his leather goods & luggage shop where Lisl used to be cashier and salesgirl. Proudly he told the neighbors again how Lisl had been warned not to enter the contest by no less a personage than the Bishop of Galveston (TIME, April 15) and how Lisl, though profoundly impressed by the cleric's warning, had decided to enter anyhow...