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...were high, hoped to replace it later with cheaper grain. But like the bank teller who borrows money from the till to play the horses and plans to pay it back when he hits a winner, many a warehouseman never got around to making up the shortage. Explained one grainman: "It has been going on for years. It just sort of crept up on 'em. Fellow would start out and maybe borrow a car of grain. Before you know it, he's involved and can't square up. CCC never was a business operation-too much...
Super. In Kansas City, Grainman W. J. Haynes, who had always had trouble with his soup, invented an automatic soup bowl that took care of everything. A thermometer on pulley and chain dipped in & out to register temperature, and turned on a bulb cooler when the soup piped too hot. Other gadgets dunked crack ers, sprinkled salt, swabbed the last drop...
...Democratic primary. Burke had antagonized the farmers by voting against parity payments; Labor, by attacking NLRB; Czechs and Poles, by lauding Hitler; Germans, by voting for repeal of the arms embargo. The Republicans had turned down a New Dealer within their own ranks, Arthur J. Weaver, in favor of Grainman Hugh Butler of Omaha, who probably won because he spent enough money to get a professional organization. The Republicans confidently expected to beat Governor Cochran with Grainman Butler...
Though all four great markets seesawed sympathetically with changing prospects for War or Peace last week, the upward surge in world wheat had one fundamental cause: supply & demand. "Were it not for the very heavy carryover of Canadian wheat, amounting to about 200,000.000 bu.," said Grainman Fred Uhlmann of Chicago, "I believe there would be a scarcity of wheat such as has not occurred in a decade or two." Fact was, instead of having four or five major wheat exporting nations, the world this year will have only...
...Baroness Giacoma Giorgio Levi, born Maud Rosenbaum, is the daughter of Chicago Grainman Emanuel S. Rosenbaum. She married her Italian Baron, a polo-player, in 1927, divorced him last winter. Spectators were not surprised to see Baroness Levi at Forest Hills last week. She is No. 7 in U. S. ranking, a ubiquitous match player. They were surprised to see her execute the most dignified fall of the week in her match with Betty Nuthall of England, even more surprised when she defeated England's one-time No. 1 player, 6-4, 6-4. Against tall, statuesque Dorothy Andrus...