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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were much less interested in the 1930 crop which they have promised not to touch on the market, than they were in the great 1929 crop, an incubus under which they still labored. The two grain corporations, interlocking in personnel and activity, had bought in some 45 or 50 million bushels of wheat, of which 15 million were futures for May delivery (TIME. March 10). Wheat bins were already choked in Chicago and Minneapolis. Delivery date had almost come. Chairman Legge had insisted that Stabilization Corp's acceptance of these deliveries would clear it of any charge of speculation...
Three-quarters of a million Russians passed slowly, sadly, day after day last week through the Writers' Club in Moscow. On a blood-red catafalque lay the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky...
Musical: EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK. SONS O' GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN...
Robert A. Million, receiver of last year's Arts & Sciences medal) that the earth is constantly being reactivated, perpetuated with cosmic rays. Thus considering the earth as a physio-chemical system which has assumed a definite arrangement it is reasonable to conclude that eventually the same arrangement current today will repeat itself. In years too vast in number to be expressed, Washington may be expected again to lead a ragged army, Christ to be crucified, President Hoover to pitch the season's first baseball...
Though generally considered an almost extinct disease, leprosy still grips between two and three million sufferers. Most of these are herded into colonies which dot the globe. There they are treated, often cured...