Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parallel was obvious. The President had asked Congress for crop control legislation and had failed to get it. Now, with a bumper crop threatening to depress cotton prices, Southern Congressmen wanted him to use Commodity Credit Corporation's $135,000,000 kitty to grant farmers loans of 10? a lb. on their cotton and to peg the price at 12? a lb. Only assurance that such loans would be repaid lay, according to the President, in legislation to limit next year's crop. Before granting them he wanted as assurance the equivalent of a "banker's acceptance...
...Agricultural Committee he promised to order the Commodity Credit Corporation to make loans of 9? or 10 ? a lb. on the new crop, pay farmers the difference between what they eventually get for their cotton and 12? a lb. Similar means will be taken to meet any serious price declines which may follow anticipated bumper crops in corn & other grains...
...that the cost of Alaska was actually even less. In his collected letters, Franklin K. Lane, Interstate Commerce Commissioner under Theodore Roosevelt, relates being told by Senator Dawes that when negotiations for the purchase of Alaska were quietly started before the Civil War, $1,400,000 was the tentative price agreed on. During the War, when the Confederacy was trying to get British and French recognition, Secretary Seward persuaded Russia, as a demonstration of friendship, to have its warships cruise along both Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, with the secret understanding that the U. S. would pay for the maneuver. After...
...Charter Jubilee Art Show (Chicago got its city charter in 1837) was open to any Chicago artist regardless of credo and achievement. Each was invited to send two works. Some 500 painters hung 850 canvases, with a sprinkling of photographs, pastels, sculpture. All artists were requested to price their showings and almost all did so. Prices ranged from $1.50 for Gazelle (sculpture) to $10,000 for Typical Historical American Indian (sculpture). On opening day, the show, which will run until Sept. 7, attracted 2,000 visitors at 10? a head. At week's end attendance stood...
...Harry M. Durning, Collector of Customs for the Port of New York, but brakes recently applied on some forms of Federal expenditure stalled the project. Last week a compromise was effected. Artist Marsh, insisting that he was "keen as hell" to get his mural up at almost any price had himself enrolled as an Assistant Clerk in the Treasury Department's Procurement Division, salary 90? an hour, $1,560 a year, to paint his picture. Under him will be six assistants, listed as "artists" and drawing $1.60 an hour for a 15-hour week. The 2,500 square feet...