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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from extending for two more years the International Wheat Agreement (drawn up in 1933 to limit wheat production and export), the 25 delegates from 16 nations* did nothing last week except view the outlook with much alarm. Conference experts figured that the world harvest, excluding the Soviet Union, China and Manchukuo, would total 4,205,000,000 bu., 216,000,000 bu. above the all-time record set in 1928. Especially ominous was the prospect for the U. S. Once a major wheat exporter (200,000,000 bu.), the U. S. last year sold only...
Month ago, financial writer and Lecturer L. Merle Hostetler decided that business men's "confidential" news letters were too gloomy, began experimenting with a letter of his own "openly and avowedly a resume of only the favorable features in the outlook for trade, industry and finance." Result was Hostetler's Good News Letter. With a suddenly bullish stockmarket. Good News had plenty of good news for this week...
...Emile Herzog), journalist, critic, biographer, historian, lecturer, professional Anglophile and the New York Times's eminent French trained seal. A onetime textile manufacturer, Andre Maurois went into the more elegant business of writing and became a parlor philosopher with the glibness of an Emil Ludwig and the precious outlook of an H. L. Mencken. Last week he followed into the Academy arch-Royalist Charles Maurras, also elected within the month (TIME, June...
...farming weather has been so perfect this spring that even green telephone poles around Franklin. Neb., last week sprouted leafy branches. A more alarming manifestation of fertility are bumper crops impending in almost every State. With farm prices already 20% under last year, not since 1932 has the outlook for the U. S. farmer seemed more ominous. Hence, when Washington newshawks waited one afternoon last week for the Department of Agriculture's definitive June 1 estimate of 1938 crops, commodity exchanges all over the U. S. were jittery. The figures that correspondents relayed to their home offices were...
...committee held this weird exhibition of academic bud-nipping unfair to Drs. Walsh and Sweezy and harmful to Harvard because: i) Drs. Walsh and Sweezy were brilliant teachers, 2) Harvard sorely needs experts on labor and men of unorthodox views to broaden the outlook of its economics department. It recommended that Drs. Walsh and Sweezy (who have resigned from the university) be reinstated...