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When would his next issue be? In the words of Publick Occurrences' first editor, whenever "any Glut of OCCURRENCES happen." There would probably be six or eight gluts a year, Monaghan guessed...
...that retail prices of butter, and many another staple, were at last going down. Prices of canned citrus fruits fell one-third in some cities. In Florida and Texas, prices of citrus fruits were down 50% to 60% from last year, as a bumper crop was harvested. The glut was so great, and prices so low, that packers and growers slapped a temporary embargo .on shipments, trying to keep prices up in northern markets. Eggs were down generally 3? a dozen; meat and lard dropped an average...
...less July and August to take advantage of zooming prices. "Many of these cattle would normally have been fed to heavier weights," continued ex-cattle feeder Truman, "and come to market during September and October instead of August. Whether price control had been restored or not the glut of meat in summer was bound to mean a shortage in the fall...
Then he talked a group of St. Louis businessmen into financing his expansion, to a new Parks Airport across the river from St. Louis at Cahokia, Ill. He signed up 400 students after some whirlwind publicity. By the early thirties, he smartly anticipated a glut of pilots, shifted the emphasis to aviation engineering. Today Parks students still learn to fly, at the 113-acre campus-airport, but spend most of their 2½-year course (for a B.S. degree) on the ground. In World War II Parks trained 24,000 A.A.F. flyers at five schools...
Observes Columbia's Law Dean Young B. Smith, eyeing the G.I. Bill of Rights uneasily: "A university is under the obligation to give general education to as many as possible, but the professional schools ought not to train more than the profession can absorb. [A glut of lawyers] creates unemployment and frustrated desires. . . . It would be mistaken patriotism to train too many. . . . A disappointed lawyer is just smart enough to make trouble for everybody. He is likely to become a sourbelly and a revolutionary...