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Thus at a time when the wheat importing areas of the earth need more grain than they have bought in years, Canada alone can supply them. So for once it looked as if a governmental stabilization scheme might turn a profit instead of the usual loss. With its enormous reservoir of wheat accumulated in tireless attempts to support the Winnipeg market, the Canadian Grain Board can almost dictate its own prices...
...Refusing TVA's request for legalized control over all dam building in the Tennessee basin, a power which under existing law it had exercised merely by the "land shark" practice of buying up little parcels of land where Aluminum Co. of America was trying to purchase reservoir sites...
...There is no more reason for public officials allowing a presentation of Waiting for Lefty than there is a reason for allowing a madman to distribute deadly bacilli into a public reservoir. . . . The Boston police served the public and championed the higher idealism of true Americanism by closing the play and arresting some of the actors...
Aluminum Co., planning to build a plant on the Little Tennessee River (tributary of the Tennessee), had begun buying a power site. When 80% of the land for a reservoir had been acquired, TVA stepped in, bought two small tracts for "national park purposes," one of a few acres, the other 30 ft. by 50 ft. For the more minuscule parcel of land TVA paid $150 (compared to $4 or $5 paid by Aluminum Co. for similar land nearby) but it was worth it, for Aluminum Co. could not legally flood two "national parks...
Horatio S. White '73, Professor of German, Emeritus, died Wednesday afternoon at his home in Cambridge, after a short illness. Funeral services will be held at the home, 29 Reservoir Street, at noon today, with burial in Mt. Auburn Cemetery...