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...Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, asked about the political effect of the wheat glut in the coming elections, declared: "If conditions don't improve materially some of us [Republicans] will not be returned in November." Democrats, seeking political capital, assailed the Farm Board as a failure, dared President Hoover to call a special session of Congress to deal anew with the problem...
Months ago Mr. Ford's agents informed the French that if the tariff on parts was raised (the Ford Francaise is made in France of parts shipped from the U. S. and Ireland), Ford would set up a manufacturing plant in France so enormous that its output would completely glut the French low-priced market, drive out of business such French firms as Citroen...
Brazil holds a hoard of more than 16 million bags, more than 19 billion pounds. She keeps on hoarding because desperately afraid that any other policy would glut the world coffee market, send the price plunging ruinously down...
Wags. Wall Street has long had its own private store of wisecracks, but not until this year did stockmarket gags glut the revues and become current at U. S. dinner tables. Upon a tense, avid public, the market break released a flood of cracks, good & bad, new & old, clean & smutty. Foreign visitors, expecting a glum, panic-stricken people, were amazed to find a new joke for each new catastrophe. Among cracks more or less good, new, clean...
What seemed to have occurred was that several thousand rural bravos & marauders descended upon Leiyang to stage a good old-fashioned glut. Whole families were tortured until they told the whereabouts of valuables and gold. Dirty thumbs with ragged nails gouged out the eyes of stubborn misers or those who really had no gold. Finally surviving citizens of Leiyang were herded and penned into buildings which were lighted and burned amid awful outcries. The heathen, glutted to repletion, spread their grins and carried off their loot. Supplementary despatches confirmed that those burned & butchered numbered approximately...