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...dream takes him to old Bagdad, where he is received by the Sultan and Sultana (former Strip-Teaser Gypsy Rose Lee). Eddie earns the gratitude of the harassed Sultan by setting up a New Deal, with himself as Prime Minister. Some of his projects: improved breadlines (one for rye, one for whole-wheat), a tax on wives, bridges for riverless Bagdad* (the rivers to be dug later), dancing lessons for the masses, filling stations for camels...
Fortnight ago, burly German peasants lifted their furrowed, mahogany faces and straightened their creaking backs from harvesting their rye to look into the faces of burly Nazi policemen, lounging menacingly nearby. By a decree styled "A Decree for Safeguarding the Bread Supply," Agriculture Minister Richard-Wralther Darré requisitioned all wheat and rye crops for the Third Reich. To guarantee enforcement, Heinrich Himmler, with a wave of his pince-nez, directed his State police to supervise all harvesting, transporting, and storage activities. Farmers may retain only enough for their personal appetite, feeding hired hands, and seed...
This year's German wheat and rye harvest, damaged by a cold winter and a late, dry spring, will fall about 15% below last year's, which was under average. Minister-President Göring has contracted for about 1,500,000 tons of foreign grain, while June figures show that food imports increased 16%, all of which has to be paid for out of Reichsbanker Schacht's laboriously collected foreign exchange reserves. Aim of the grain requisition is to save for food two million tons of rye and a half-million tons of wheat previously...
Other estimates: rye, 45,974.000 bu. compared to 25,544,000 bu. in 1936; barley, 200,000,000 to 225,000,000 bu. against 147,452,000 bu. in 1936; oats, between 1,000,000,000 and 1,100,000,0co bu. -compared...
...until October. July corn got above as the high as $1.25 per bu., nearly 10?above the same wheat delivery. And the terrific demand for grain in hand for settlement of May contracts continued to be visible in a 13?to 14? premium on cash corn, 10? on cash rye, 8? to 11? on cash oats...