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While the Senate pothered over future crop production (see above), in other quarters of the capital the more realistic and troublesome problem of last year's wheat crop came forward and was met with a temporary solution. The 1928 crop was a bumper, close to 900 million bushels. On March 1, there still remained 355,563,000 bushels undisposed of, bulging in elevators and farm bins. It was the largest surplus since 1919, To make matters worse, the 1929 crop promises to surpass 1928's to run well above the 900 million bushel mark...
Canada has no less of a surplus wheat problem than the U. S. and it was by action in that quarter that U. S. relief plans may yet be nullified. The Canadian wheat surplus on April 1 was 246 million bushels which also had to be moved out before the new crop came in. The Port of Montreal was congested with surplus grain. Eleven vessels with large wheat cargoes cleared last week, starting the flow to Europe. To retain Canada's present 8 cent freight advantage to the world market, its railroad executives prepared to discuss rate reductions correspondingly below...
Democratic deficits customarily have been allowed to run over until the eve of the following campaign, thus strangling with debt all inter-election activity. Even the two-million-dollar Republican deficit after the Harding election was not liquidated until 1923, and then only by dubious collections and split...
...General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation has offered Harvard University $400,000 to be used in the construction of a new million-dollar physical laboratory, provided that the University raise the other $600,000, it was announced yesterday by Theodore Lyman '97, Director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory and Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. According to the proposed plans, the building will cost $500,000 and $100,000 will be spent on equipment. The remaining $400,000 will be devoted to an endowment for the laboratory...
...situation in regard to the H. A. A. surplus has not been much clarified by the recent statement from University Hall that the Corporation has "no intention of acquiring a ten million dollar endowment fund for the support of athletics." Out of a host of possibilities one is withdrawn. The present surplus may be allowed to accumulate to an indefinite size and for no purpose at all as far as one can tell from the Delphic utterance of the authorities...