Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concern among farm cooperative leaders was the revelation by Chairman Legge of how his Board would handle future wheat loans: The Board would advance its funds to the National Farmers Grain Cooperative at 3½% which in turn would farm out in smaller loans to individual cooperatives, adding "a small additional charge," presumably 2% or 3%. In effect the cooperatives would be paying the same rate-6%-as private commission men for cash. Chairman Legge carefully explained that whatever profit the national cooperative made from the additional interest imposed would in the end go back to the local cooperatives...
...weeks ago blue-eyed Princess Ileana of Rumania ran her small yacht . on a sand bank in the Black Sea and waited, fogbound, fog-frightened, until rescued by a gunboat from Constanta. Last week, fog-free and thankful, she presented a handsome silver candelabrum to the many domed Cathedral of Constanta. Her pious inscription...
Bankrupt. The Provincetown Players, discoverers in 1916 of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, when they gave his Bound East for Cardiff in a shack on a wharf in Provincetown, Mass. This winter they moved up from their small Greenwich Village theatre to Broadway. Subscribers' pledges of some $60,000 were not met. Suspected reason: "The stockmarket...
...Brooklyn a policeman at his post was confronted by a small boy who handed him a loaded hand-grenade and vanished...
...dirigible bases are at Lakehurst, N. J., Akron, Ohio, Scott Field.; mooring masts at Detroit, Scott Field, Seattle, Honolulu, Fort Worth, Texas; small hangars at Langley Field, Va., Wright Field, Ohio, Aberdeen...