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...Furious, the Board of Trade finally stepped in, told Cargill to sell 1,000,000 bu. in four hours in order to bring its holdings down to the 5,000,000 bu. allowed by the "gentlemen's agreement." Terming this "confiscation of the worst order," President John Hugh MacMillan Jr. of Cargill refused to comply and the Board stopped trading in September futures six days before settlement was clue, ordered all contracts closed...
...INTELLIGENT INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY-P. W. Bridgman-Macmillan ($2.50). RETREAT FROM REASON-Lancelot T. Hogben-Random House ($1). By the centenary of his birth (1938), predicted Historian Henry Adams, science would have built "a world that sensitive and timid natures could regard without a shudder." But in 1938 science's millennium is still to seek. Shuddering harder than ever, many a modern now says science is a phoney...
...POET'S LIFE-Harriet Monroe-Macmillan...
STRANGERS-Claude Houghton-Macmillan ($2.50). Story of a happily married Englishman who drifts into a love affair with the daughter of an old friend, keeps the relationship on a high-minded plane, and returns in time to save his son's life. A thin but convincing account of a familiar triangle, a thinner and unconvincing account of emotional difficulties solved semi-mystically...
BROOKS Too BROAD FOR LEAPING- Flannery Lewis-Macmillan ($2.50). A sensitive, well-written story of a seven year-old's small-town world of 1918; b) the promising youthful author of Suns Go Down...