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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week, President Dawes's brother, Charles Gates Dawes, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, received credit for a whirlwind (two-day) campaign in which ten million dollars were raised for the Fair by appeals to potent Chicagoans...
...aiding technical schools, institutions of higher learning, libraries, scientific research, hero funds, useful publications, and by such other agencies and means as shall from time to time be found appropriate therefor." A notable addition to the Carnegie Institution's basic $27,000,000 endowment was the half-million which Mrs. Edward Henry Harriman, sole heir and active manager of the late great railroad organizer's $100,000,000 estate, gave in 1918. She was and is interested in problems of human heredity...
Simple enough was the explanation-"too much wheat." About 350 million bushels have been carried over from last year's harvest. The winter wheat crop has begun to come in, is estimated from 625 to 650 million bushels...
...would apply $100,000,000 of its revolving fund to help out the wheat market. As wheat closed last week at 98, and as it costs about $1.23 to raise a bushel, it was difficult to see how much lasting good $100,000,000 would do in an 880 million bushel crop. Traders, however, did not pause to work out the economics of the situation. The fact that help was coming was sufficient. Furthermore, the market had been oversold, and prices forced below their natural level were ready to rebound violently at the first good news...
...light trading. As far as permanent relief of the wheat situation was concerned, however, it was felt that only a major crop scare in spring wheat would result in continued rising prices. It has been estimated that there will be a world carry-over of 500 million bushels on July...