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First. The OPA does not prevent inflation. If a man wants a white shirt, the fact that the ceiling price is $2.50 is of no benefit, because there are no white shirts. If the retailer receives a shipment of shirts, he sells them to his old customers at a large bonus. And they are right to do so. They are trying to make as much money as they can; and at the same time they are morally resisting a tyrannous law--a law that tells them what to do with their own property...
...bewitched by U.S. grain policies, finally said to hell with it. Last week the board's directors shut down trading in wheat and rye, curtailed trading in corn and barley, canceled $50 million worth of contracts. With the U.S. buying huge quantities of grain directly from farmers for shipment abroad, it was impossible to continue "a free and orderly market." Kansas City and Minneapolis exchanges promptly shut...
Nevertheless, the shiploads exported since Jan. 1 were already twice the total for the whole of an average prewar year, the rate of shipment greater than any in all U.S. history. By July 1, U.S. grain stocks promised to be as low as those in the drought-ridden...
Blister rust got its beachhead in the U.S. in 1898, in a shipment of infected white pine striplings from Europe. By the time it was discovered (1906), it had rotted many a noble white pine in the Northeast, and was well started on the path that in 1922 brought it into the great forests of the Northwest...
...Hearn Department Store gave the public its first chance to buy a ball pen for less than $12.50. It put on sale 18,000 new Blythe pens at $9.95 each. Before the week was out, Hearn's had sold so many that it had to get a second shipment...