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...post-Korea bounce sold for 80? a pound, was down to 27?. Lead was 4? a pound cheaper than a year ago, and zinc 6? less. The BLS index of all commodities, which had jumped a maximum of 16% after Korea, had lost nearly five percent of the gain and, with the near-record 1952 farm crops coming in, many commodities were expected to fall still more. Since retail prices rise & fall with commodity prices, the drop in commodity prices should mean some lower retail prices in the future...
...cotton crop and updating the incomplete estimates on other crops. Just before 11 a.m., the big doors of the room swung open, and Chairman S. R. Newell strode across the hall to give newsmen the board's 1952 report. The news: The U.S. this year will have a near-record crop, probably surpassed in U.S. history only by the 1948 crop totals. Cotton (14.5 million bales) may be nearly 7% below last year's crop acreage, but corn (3.3 billion bu.) and wheat (1.2 billion bu.) are expected to be almost 14% and 26% higher, respectively...
...freshman meet, Captain Kerry Donovan took the 50- and 100-yard freestyle sprints in near-record time to lead the Elis to a 50 to 34 win over Bill Brooks' Yardling team...
Johnson stated that this number was high compared with other years, and expressed hope that the '52 class will top last year's near-record of 55 candidates...
...Harvard Fund Council raised a near-record $409,300 during 1951, David McCord '21, executive secretary of the Council, announced this week, but this total placed Harvard considerably behind the amounts collected by Yale Dartmouth, and Princeton. Harvard also lagged in percentage of givers and average contributions...