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...wheat, barley, fodder, butter, etc. But these imports, Mr. Hull can show conclusively, did not displace U. S. farm products; they supplemented the U. S. supply, prevented a shortage. Further, they came in because farm prices were high, and their only effect on domestic prices was to check a rise to famine levels, thus benefiting all consumers-including farmers who bought livestock feed. Another $45,000,000 of the increase was in sugar imports-that was mostly in higher prices, as sugar imports are controlled by quotas. Of the $261,000,000 remaining, $178,000,000 is accounted...
Question is whether the healthy competition started by Allis-Chalmers has taught U. S. farm implement companies their lesson. Barely two years ago the industry greeted Depression II with a 4-5% price rise. So catastrophic was the kickback that, later in 1938, the increase was given back, prices on heavy machinery were slashed up to 12%. With dollar-plus wheat and 72? corn, the industry has not guaranteed its customers against a price rise in 1940. It always prefers rosy spectacles...
...Public-utility construction will rise 16%, total...
...officer; of a heart attack; in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. He served as chief navigation officer (1898) of the battleship Oregon on its spectacular trip around Cape Horn to join the U. S. fleet off Cuba. He was one of the two naval men in history to rise from the ranks to wear an admiral's four stars. (The other: John Paul Jones...