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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wheat futures last week tumbled to 62? a bu., lowest since 1933 and 13? below the wheat loan figure (at Chicago) set last month by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. Corn futures also hit the skids, dropping below 50? a bu. for the first time in four years. However, the Department of Agriculture's official estimate of a 2,566,221,000 bu. 1938 corn crop meant that the harvest (plus the carryover) will be 27,000,000 bu. short of an "excessive supply"; hence there will be no referendum to give farmers an opportunity to get marketing...
From Washington came more spectacular news of the mischievous effects of limiting emergency power. Month ago, when a Lockheed 14-H (on Northwest Airlines' Flight Four from Seattle to Chicago) fetched up against a pine tree after taking off from the Billings Municipal Airport in Montana, all sorts of wild guesses were hazarded about the cause of the accident. Investigators of the Bureau of Air Commerce went to Billings and tried the experiment of recreating the circumstances of the accident. In a similar Northwest plane with the same load they took off under similar conditions and quickly discovered...
...order to make air-minded but temporarily air-sated readers even mildly interested in the twelfth transatlantic flight in the past month (Lufthansa's four-motored Focke-Wulf "Condor" Brandenburg, from Berlin to New York City and return), newspapers were obliged to run banner headlines about SECRECY. Even this ruse failed to excite thorough readers. Day before, they had seen an Associated Press dispatch announcing the exact hour of departure, predicting the time of arrival within three hours...
...boulevards, announced a plan to take cyclists off the streets. Throughout parks and along drives in New York's five boroughs, he proposed to build 58.75 miles of winding, four-lane pedaling parkways, submitted his scheme to the Works Progress Administration for approval. As part of a 30-month park project, WPAsters will lay hard-surfaced paths, make grade crossings, erect highway signs and red-&-green traffic lights...
...mainly they wrestled with the Iraq servant problem (they had 15, costing a total of $153 a month). When they imported garden seed from England, the gardener threw out everything except onion seed, because he didn't like lettuce and such stuff. When a houseboy was married, they were put to much bother to provide a special room, because young Mohammed didn't want the customary wedding-night snoopers hanging around his door. One servant had a mania for jabbing people with forks. Household provisions disappeared as by magic. When a discharged servant was told he had been...