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...this point the food supply reached lowest ebb. The Red Cross provided 9,000 Ib. of Farm Board flour, but that did not go far to fill the stomachs of nearly 20,000 men, among whom twelve cases of dysentery were discovered. General Pelham Glassford produced the last few dollars in the B. E. F. treasury and renounced his stewardship. George Alman, leader of the 500 Communist veterans, was heard to remark: "I know where there are warehouses bursting with food in this town. I'm going to march the boys down there and let them help themselves...
Agriculture, The Farm Board was flayed for "stabilizing wheat from $1.25 per bu. down to 30¢, corn from 75¢ per bu. down to 20¢, cotton from 15¢ per Ib. down to 5¢, wool from 20¢ per Ib. down to 7¢" at a public cost of $500,000,000. But Senator Barkley's only concrete suggestions were to lend the farmers more money like "other forms of industry and finance" and to "take the Government out of the dubious adventure of speculation in farm products...
...Restored the Wartime nuisance tax of 12 pfennigs (2½¢) on each kilogram (2.2 Ib.) of salt...
...also stowed in the Egypt's strong room tons of silk, small arms & ammunition, and paper rupees worth, if they were valid last week, about $14,000,000. Italian divers had performed the prodigious feat of opening the strong room at a 400-ft. depth where pressure was 177.2 Ib. per sq. in. (at the surface it is 15 Ib.). Before they could get at last to the gold, the salvagers had to remove masses of rotted silk and other unexpected debris...
...motors in 1922 the company reached a peak of 31.000 in 1929, a figure representing more than half the industry's output. The company now makes five sizes of outboard motors, ranging from the 1½-h.p. single cylinder motor to the 4-cyl., 32-h.p., 116-Ib. Johnson Sea Horse. During the last two years motorboat sales have dropped badly. Last week it was no surprise when the smooth drone of Johnson Motor Co.'s affairs was broken, the firm sputtered, coughed, lapsed into receivership...