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...pull farm prices up to the same level as other prices. Commodities selected for upping: wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, cattle, sheep, rice, tobacco and milk and its products. Picked as a standard to which agricultural prices were to rise to restore their parity with industry was the average pre-War level of 1909-14. Five bushels of wheat then bought a good pair of shoes which today cost nearer twelve. Secretary...
Commodity Pre-War Average Feb. Average (In Cents...
...methods available for the Secretary of Agriculture to up the February averages to pre-War parity involved the payment to John Farmer of a subsidy to reduce his production, thus sending down the supply and up the price...
Jesse Livermore, a friend from pre-War days in Chicago, Broker Block has called "the gamest and cleverest trader alive." Durant he said was "as square a man as you'll ever know, and when his friends are losing he is losing more than any of them." Broker Block ought to know; he helped Durant throw away a $90,000,000 fortune trying to support General Motors' stock in the 1920 crash. But Bull Durant fell out with Broker Block two years ago when his account was sold out. Early this year he sued for $378,000, claiming he loaned...
...Respectability. With the colored lithographs of Currier & Ives and wax flowers under glass bells, they marked the sunrise of artistic appreciation in the country. The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home as un varying as the ikon opposite the door of pre-War Russia. It stood in the bay win dow, between the Nottingham lace curtains, where it could be seen from the street. Most of the 87 groups were modeled by Sculptor Rogers with this in mind, that they might be equally effective from all sides. Subjects were catholic, but each told a story...