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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 80,000,000 actually seeded this year). Figured on the basis of 52% of the present farm parity price of wheat ($1.14 a bu.), the loans will average about 60? a bu. at the farm. The 1938 crop estimated at 967,000,000 but, will be the second largest on record, and Commodity Credit Corp. has set aside $100,000,000 for the loans. Purpose of the loans is to let farmers keep their wheat off the market until they can get a better price. Secretary Wallace chose the minimum rate permitted by the 1938 AAA, but wheat prices...
...oldest U. S. steel companies and first manufacturer of boiler plate, 128-year-old Lukens Steel Co. is located at Coatesville near the hard coal country of eastern Pennsylvania. With total assets of $16,000,000, it is 14th largest in the industry, specializes in making steel plates for steamships and locomotives, nickel and chrome quality alloys. Last fiscal year, Lukens' net income was $158,218, biggest since 1929. But its operating costs also increased. When Depression II cut production as low as 35% of capacity, the company cut its payroll almost in half, laid...
...hills above Kobe, Japan's fifth largest city (pop. 938,200), is the twelve-year-old, $3,471,600 gigantic Kita-machi Reservoir. On the southern part of the main Japanese Island of Honchu, on which are located Japan's chief cities, fell last week exceptionally heavy rains. Heaviest rainfall was in the highly industrialized area of Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto. One morning the Kita-machi Reservoir broke. A torrent swept down the city. Landslides slid into East Kobe's residential sections, threatened even neighboring Osaka. Kobe's Broadway, the Motomachi, was flooded with ten feet...
Since country weeklies are distinctive for their local flavor, great chains and publishing titans in this field are rare. However, their widening interests have meant greater dependence on centralized services. For editorial matter outside of local topics, some of them use the Western Newspaper Union, world's largest and oldest publishing syndicate. With 34 branch plants in principal U. S. cities, W. N. U. sells type, printing machinery, paper and 400 features to 10,732 daily and weekly newspapers. For national advertising, some 5,000 country papers are represented by the American Press Association, which is no association...
...Jumped on the Elite Social Correspondence Register of Los Angeles. FTC announced that Elite's proprietors had agreed to stop saying that they are the largest advertisers in the social club world and that they have available for introduction to their members of both sexes persons who are "worth while," "cultured" and "wealthy." Said FTC: "They admit in their stipulation that they cannot always establish for their clients contacts which will lead to happiness and lasting contentment...