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...present low prices are due more to bumper weather (even the Dust Bowl bloomed this year) than to any serious defect in the Act. But in spite of the most far reaching crop control laws ever enacted, all three major U. S. crops are in trouble. Wheat, with a near-record crop of 940,000,000 bushels and a whopping 300.000,000 bushel carryover in prospect for next year, has stumbled to 50? a bushel on the farm (against $1.25 in 1936). A plan to subsidize export of 100,000,000 bushels has been so snagged by record surpluses abroad...
...coverage, Chairman Crowley said FDIC was willing to raise the ante if the additional risk were "very small." Previous estimates showed that about 95% of U. S. deposits were covered by the present limit. But a new estimate is in order, now that bank deposits have risen to a near-record peak of $47,500,000,000. In any case, said Leo Crowley, he meant no reflection upon bank strength-in the first half of 1938 only 38 banks failed, of which 33 were insured...
...tall (6 ft. 4 in.) John Y. Woodruff, neither of whom had won an I. C. 4-A title. When fleet little Ben Johnson not only whizzed home first in .the 100-yd. dash and won the broad jump, but also reeled off a 220-yd. semifinal in a near-record 21 sec., Columbia thought the championships already won. Thereupon Pitt's Woodruff, in the quarter-and half-mile races, duplicated Johnson's double victory, loping through the quarter-mile in nine-foot strides to tie the intercollegiate record of 47 sec. flat. A Pitt sprinter pulled...
...Landon could console himself last week with the thought that, though his electoral total touched a near-record low, he had at least topped Herbert Hoover's 15,000,000 popular votes of 1932. No such solace was available to the nation's third party candidates and their backers, whose wretched performances at the polls made the Republican fiasco seem a comparative triumph...
...arrests for drunkenness (except a few "smoke" victims) were recorded in New York City during the first 24 hours of legalized beer, a near-record...