Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Owners of those ears had already discovered that the only man who could very well do something was Franklin Roosevelt. In his Commodity Credit Corporation's purse he had $135,000,000 with which he could peg the price of cotton at 10? or 9?. Long ago Congress had turned over control of that purse to the Executive Department. Cotton-conscious Congressmen squirmed and realized that they were the very ones who had stood or tried to stand in the way of Franklin Roosevelt's pet Wages & Hours and Housing Bills...
...time being, only a small share of their tonnage to island refiners, but U. S. beet and cane growers would be without the extended protection of the expiring Jones-Costigan Act, which has helped keep U. S. sugar more than three times as high as the world market price...
...half-million tons of wheat previously fed to livestock. With Himmler's strong-arm squads on duty to watch for slackers, the farmers shrugged their shoulders, took humorous consolation in the Government's promise to sell them cheap animal fodder at $8 a ton below the market price for rye. and in Völkischer Beobachter's assurance that "the German peasant should be happy and willing to serve in this high cause...
...comradely N. Y. Zoological Park shipped to Antwerp 325 birds and animals. Thus, when Dr. William Reid Blair, genial director of the Zoological Park, made a bid for the Buta okapi, the Belgian Government saw fit to repay past kindness by giving him to Dr. Blair at a price far below that offered. But the okapi did not immediately leave Buta. In view of the indifferent success a few zoos have had in keeping them, Dr. Blair decided to let his okapi become accustomed to civilization before moving him. At last, late this May, the Buta okapi boarded a side...
Three grandchildren of Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis-Louis (11), Alice (9), and Frank Gilbert (7) -started on Cape Cod a hectographed newspaper called Chatham Chatter. Price, 1?. Contents of the first issue: by Alice, a tribute to Amelia Earhart; by Frank, "The Slavery Question and How It Changed the United States"; by Grand-editor Louis, editorials. Excerpts: "The modern child grows up with guns surrounding him. Guns to the right of him, guns to the left of him, guns in front of him, volley and thunder. This is one of the main reasons of wars...