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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wheat prices at elevators are governed by the closing prices in the Chicago pit, the difference being accounted for by transportation and insurance charges. Last week the price was hovering around 49? before it slipped to 47¾?, then plunged to 43⅛?. Statisticians burrowed into their records and announced that the price was the lowest recorded since 1852, four years after the Board of Trade was founded. Viewing the estimated North American surplus of 700,000,000 bu., economists predicted still lower prices. Where once $1 wheat was a bogey, 40? wheat seemed now a plain probability...
Together with the Pit's slump, wheat tumbled in Winnipeg. Canadian prices have long been pegged at around 50?, a price which because of the depreciation in the Canadian dollar gives Canadian wheat an advantage in the world markets. Last week when the slump in Chicago narrowed the margin of advantage the Winnipeg peg was pulled. In a short time December wheat was selling at 47⅝? in Canadian currency, giving it a 2⅜? advantage over U. S. wheat. How this advantage works is seen in the September export figures. During the month Canada exported...
Doubly blessed are the men who can in these parious times seek refuge in the Universities for there is not only spiritual nourishment, but even something more satisfying in the pit of the stomach in these days of half rations or nothing at all. All of which is by way of preface to a few remarks on the details announced in this CRIMSON of the new jobs given to University men. Harvard has apparently canvassed every department and building to create a number of positions equal to the necessities of the many students who now find themselves thrown in part...
...slick manipulation Benson was acquitted. Benson might have gone unpunished to his grave had not the Furies taken a hand in hounding him. Human avengers came to his hideout too late, but had the workman-like satisfaction of chucking what was left of him into the Five Points rat-pit. Author Komroff's tale of 100-year-old Manhattan is no lavender-scented memorial, but a crude, almost reportorial narrative which lets the background take care of itself. A New York Tempest is a tale not of Manhattan's 400 (so designated circa...
...recalled him from the Seville Hotel, in Manhattan, where he was a bellhop. Unable to think of anything for Harpo to say, she had him try some of his grandfather's tricks. When the Marxes were performing in Waukegan, Ill., they were surprised to hear, in the orchestra pit, the piano playing of their brother Chico. He had been touring the country as a piano player and wrestler. At Waukegan, Chico, Zeppo, Gummo and Groucho made their closest approach to an academic career in an act called "Fun in Hi-Skule." On the Sullivan-Considine circuit they toured with...