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...basic ingredients in the Intrigue were simple: 36,000,000 Ib. of potatoes in storage, worth a mere 35? a bu. compared to their $1.37 ancestors of 1930; 3,000,000 potato farmers, bitter when they think what AAA has done for cotton, for tobacco, even for such a "basic commodity" as peanuts; two railroads eager for potato traffic; a Secretary of State devoted to foreign trade; three great potato regions -Idaho, Maine and the South Atlantic Seaboard-and three great potato statesmen...
...Warren proposal is modeled on the cotton and tobacco restriction acts: a quota for every state and every grower, a penalty tax of ½? to ¾? per Ib. But the circumstances attending potato control are not simple. Potatoes do not have to go to a gin like cotton, nor are they bought by a few big buyers like tobacco. So collection of the tax and enforcement of quotas will be difficult. It will be more difficult because there are an estimated 3,000,000 potato growers who raise an average of less than an acre of potatoes each. Enforcement...
...presses, largest of the kind ever built. Glowering edifices of gears, shafting, cable, motors and massive slides, the tallest of them tower 27 ft. above the floors, extend down another 12½ ft. into concrete pits. They deliver against the blanks a working pressure of 2,000,000 Ib. The triple-action stroke will not start until four men use both hands to push starting buttons, will automatically stop unless each operator keeps both his buttons down...
...travels with her to the U. S., packs her bags and hopes to sell a penny can-opener of his own invention. Lehmann's ways are unpretentious. She keeps no maid, answers her own telephone, does her own mending. Five years ago she was definitely large. Now 20 Ib. thinner, she watches her diet, never orders dessert although she nibbles a bit at the apple pie which Herr Krause invariably chooses...
...temple by Ferdinand Pecora, whose persistent questioning before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee had forced from the banker's own lips the admissions that had damned him. Promptly indicted for Federal income tax fraud, Mr. Mitchell had fought through a harrowing six-week trial which lost him 24 Ib. in weight but won him an acquittal (TIME, July 3, 1933). In a later income tax action his counsel had declared that his client was "millions...