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...with riot guns raced through the city trying by a frantic display of energy to conceal the fact that Benigno Ramos' proclamation had completely lulled their suspicions, that they had taken few precautions against such violence, that they had no idea whether Sakdalistas, Communists or other radicals had sown Manila with explosives...
Between January, when the seeds of ambition are sown, and November, when the political harvest is reaped, September is the season when books & pamphlets flower most profusely in the ripening campaign. Some of the brightest tares blossoming in this year's fields...
Then the U. S. Crop Reporting Board dampened all this market bearishness more effectively than rain had dampened Kansas. Predicting that 21% of all acreage sown last autumn would be abandoned, it forecast a winter wheat crop of only 493,000,000 bu. for 1936,60,000,000 bu. more than was harvested in lean 1935 but far below the 618.000,000 bu. average for the five preceding years...
...himself down recently to chits of one sheet. Last week H. R. H. weeded out of his peacocky wardrobe all suits and haberdashery from Sanctionist countries, ordered new royal gear 100% Italian. Next the vast gardens of his palace at Turin were plowed up at his orders, sown with grain "as an example to all householders...
...sales if the price differential becomes too wide. Thus, as the peach price level crashed, pineapple prices slumped also. Second, Mr. Dole could do nothing to cut pineapple production, because it takes about two years to grow a pineapple and Mr. Dole was reaping in 1932 as he had sown in 1930. Result: unmarketable pineapples piled up in Mr. Dole's factory, their stench polluting the Hawaiian air. Further result: pineapples dropped from $5.20 a case to $2.70; the 1932 pack totaled 847,000 cases against more than 4,800,000 in 1931; and in 1932 the Dole company...