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Last week the Department of Agriculture announced that this year's cotton acreage had been cut 10%. Expecting a bigger reduction, cotton traders were disappointed. Prices fell ½? per Ib. In some spot markets of the South last week cotton was selling at less than 8½? per Ib. or about one-half of what the Farm Board paid for its holdings...
Available for conjecture is the Prohibition Bureau's annual report of last year which estimated that of the total calculated production of 894.986.000 Ib. of corn sugar in 1929, it was impossible to account legally for 534 million lb. In 1930 the eccentric finger of the law pointed to two companies, 43 individuals, accused them of participating in conspiracies to violate the Prohibition law. The cases against the others are still pending. Prominent will be that of Fleischmann Co. whose yeast is an ingredient of many a mug of beer...
...Jimmy Mills, Stewart Iglehart and Elbridge Gerry have called themselves the Old Aiken team for the last four or live seasons. They have been playing together on fields at Aiken. Westbury, Harvard and Yale and on the tanbark of Manhattan armories for the last eleven years. They averaged 30 Ib. lighter, but 15 years younger than the Argentines. . In the first match, with 4,000 excited socialites craning on the sidelines, slim Ebby Gerry flashed through the Argentine defense to score seven goals. One goal he made after the head of his mallet came off, by turning the stick upside...
...miles per train-hour from 7,506 in 1921 to 10,839 in 1930. Freight locomotive miles per day were raised from 49.5 in 1921 to 58 in 1930, passenger locomotive miles from 103 to 116. Coal to move 1,000 tons one mile was cut from 162 Ib. in 1921 to 121 in 1930. A passenger car required 17 Ib. of coal to run a mile in 1921, 14 Ib. in 1930. Cited was Secretary of Commerce Hoover's praise in 1926 of the reorganization and efficient management of U. S. railroads since...
Born. To Roy Edward Larsen, vice president of TIME, and to Mrs. Margaret Zerbe Larsen; a son, Robert Roy; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib...