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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have enough trouble convincing prospects that this rate is not too high. Don't make it any harder...
...bales in loan stocks the Government had lent farmers an average 8.3? a pound. Since cotton was last week selling at about the current loan rate of 8.3?, it was obvious that the loan was pegging the price. It was also clear the farmers could not get their cotton out of hock. Let the Government make them a nominal payment of $1.25 a bale (about ¼? a pound) and take clear title...
Last year, in the Jaguaribe River Valley of eastern Brazil, the gambiae spread more than 50,000 cases of malaria. In certain districts the mortality rate was as high as 10%. After leaving 90% of the Jaguaribeans feeble and impoverished, the gambiae continued their flight. If the mosquitoes should reach "the well-watered Parnahyba and Sâo Francisco River Valleys [in east-central Brazil]," wrote Mr. Fosdick, ". . . it would be impossible to prevent [their] spread to a large part of South. Central, and perhaps even North America. The Parnahyba Valley is 500 miles from Natal; the gambiae mosquitoes...
...Committee's warning against the "second rate heretic" does not apply to Mr. Hicks, who is indisputably of the first calibre. Certainly his views are now "inadequately represented" in the English department, and he can be justly called a "thoughtful rebel," a type of scholar whom President Conant declared essential to education in a speech at Amherst four years ago. If this university is to be consistent with the most profound recent expression of its liberal attitude it should make Mr. Hicks a member of its staff...
BLOW-DOWN-Lawrence G. Blochman -Harcourt, Brace ($2). Death, destruction and international intrigue on a Caribbean banana plantation. First-rate plot, pace and background. (Appearing serially in Collier's as The Resounding Skies...