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...unique, if what we observe at large in the world today is a true index. Europe's case occupies a large place in the cross-word puzzle section. New England's case is another problem. Business also is raking over the old, discarded opinions and looking through a harvest of new ones for just one that will make a prescription...
...head of the Provisional Government that ruled Russia immediately before the Bolshevik coup in 1917, declared in Berlin, where he lives in exile, that Russia is in the grip of that apocalyptic horseman, Famine. Said he: "It is not to be wondered at that, in a Province where the harvest is officially recognized as insufficient, peasants are pillaging trains loaded with wheat and eat a mixture of the bark of trees and horse refuse. Famine, unpitying and inexorable, is drawing ever nearer in the country districts of Russia. This time an American relief association will not come. The Bolshevist policy...
AGRICULTURE. "It is estimated that the value of the crops for this harvest year may reach $13,000.000,000, which is an increase of over $3,000,000,000 in three years. It compares with $7,100,-000,000 in 1913; and, if we make deduction from the figures of 1924 for the comparatively decreased value of the dollar, the yield this year still exceeds 1913 in purchasing power by over $1,000,000,000; and in this interval there has been no increase in the number of farmers...
...times such as the present, when money is very generally seeking investment, the security swindler plans to reap his harvest. Already the published tax lists have provided many valued suggestions to the Caesars as to the meat whereon they may feed. Promoters are becoming active in the ever-fruitful Middle West. In spurious securities as in women's hats, fashions come and go. The great oil stock mania has apparently burned itself out, but in its place has arrived a credulity concerning fake land companies, ingenious but unsalable patent devices with "millions in it," and other corporate novelties...
...reaping? Fortunes were a making, but not many, men said. The pools, of course, came in for the main harvest. William C. Durant, motors man, was known to have profited on paper by between 10 and 12 millions in his remarkable "one-man pool" in U. S. Cast Iron Pipe...