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...Many a grower, who feared that a bad crash in cotton might still be ahead, began mumbling ephus-iphus-ophus, a meaningless phrase that Southern crapshooters use while making a critical roll. Many a worried millowner and converter, hedging to protect heavy inventories of high-priced cotton, helped cotton down by feverishly selling futures...
...writer, nor even the latent danger of such a social philosophy. However, he gives voice to one of the most common popular fallacies, that "scarcity is caused by under-production." Scarcity may be caused just as effectively by increasing inventories. In a spiraling of prices, when the grower or wholesaler finds it "sound business" to hold out for the top dollar, this artificial scarcity is no mere theory...
...plants. The farmer had to work twice as hard with broken-down machinery which was irreplaceable, not 8 but 14 or 16 hours a day, his sons in the service, his daughters in the defense plants, his wife on the tractor; only his dog was loafing. . . . Compelling the wheat grower to sell his wheat at an arbitrary price is as unfair as forcing union labor to work at an arbitrary wage of say 80? an hour...
Carlos A. Arosemena '49--Roberta Grower (Wellesley...
...Guffey, who had twice ridden into the Senate on Franklin Roosevelt's vote appeal, now hoped that the state ticket would help carry him through. For a candidate for Governor, the Democrats settled on John Stanley Rice, former Air Forces colonel, a mild, well-to-do Gettysburg apple grower whose political star had never risen higher than the state Senate. For Secretary of Internal Affairs they found Colonel Rice a G.I. running mate: Philadelphia's blind hero Al Schmid, former Marine sergeant...