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...Agriculture Wallace was summoned to the White House for a heart-to-heart. Board of Trade officials put their heads together in Chicago. Upshot was Government sanction of new rules which fixed minimum prices for grain (wheat, 90? per bu.; corn, 46? per bu.; oats, 35? per bu.; rye, 69?), limited daily fluctuations to 5? for wheat and other grains in proportion...
...storage plants make excellent hideaways, of which several are often necessary if the chase becomes hot. Such an organization can be formidable. The U. S. President himself set two Secret Service agents on guard over his grand-children-"Sistie" & "Buzzie" Dall and Sara Roosevelt-at Little Boars Head and Rye Beach, N. H. when an unparalleled "wave" of abductions, three major kidnappings and half a dozen attempted ones, burst violently into the news last week. Swindler. Three weeks ago at "The Dells," a suburban roadhouse northwest of Chicago celebrated for good orchestras and bad customers, John ("Jake the Barber") Factor...
...since Goldman, Sachs floated Blue Ridge Corp. has a new stock issue been gobbled up the way one was last week. Through Manhattan's Lehman Brothers, Schenley Distillers (Golden Wedding Rye) sold 230,000 shares of its stock at $15 a share. Advertisements ("a matter of record only") had not even appeared before the stock was whipped up to $46 a share on a when-issued basis. ¶ Within 24 hours after Illinois had formally ratified the 21st Amendment last week, Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts, Ltd., potent Canadian liquor company (Canadian Club Rye), announced that it would build...
...farmers $1 and $1.01 a bushel for wheat-the first time they have been offered $1 in three years. Threshing machine men upped their rental charges 25%. In the Chicago pit, wheat for May delivery touched $1.27¼ a bushel. But wheat was not the sensation of the pit. Rye outdid it. Rye (unfavored by Government restriction measures) touched $1.08½ for December delivery-jumped 23? a bushel in a week. Talk of a corner in rye by Dr. Edward A. Crawford (TIME, June 19) was resumed. Also there was talk of a rye shortage due to 1) expected...
...Harvard newly initiated has not shown the proper discretion as regards unknowing summer school belles. On the opening day four girls noticing the strange odor of melon went sniffing around Stoughton Hall until they traced the source to a half-empty bottle of Golden Wedding Rye. The four indignant maidens hastily disposed of the offending liquid. Either the whiskey was poor or lese there is something rotten in Pembroke, or perhaps Brown does not coach its women...