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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paradoxical though the shortage is, it is precisely what the Government's cotton policy was supposed to accomplish. On the 1937-38 tremendous crop of 19,000,000 bales the Government offered to lend farmers 9? per Ib. The market prices went as low as 8?, with the result that the Government's cotton holding jumped to 11,400,000 bales. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace would like to sell some of his cotton now, but the Southern Senators, riding a rising market for their constituents, will presumably see to it that no Government lint is released so long...
...Though I. T. & T.'s Madrid headquarters was a favorite target for two years of bombardment, this is not an unlikely estimate. In any war, army engineers have good reason for taking care of the telephone system, and once hostilities are over, business can quickly revive. Last week, Mr. Behn pointed out that I. T. & T. has not only recovered its net loss of 10,525 telephones during the fighting at Shanghai in 1937, but gained 7,335 more...
...certainly no formula for wealth and plenty. The six-week soft-coal deadlock that ended last week caused serious and conspicuous economic damage. Retail trade in the strike area dropped 15% to 20%. Estimates of the total loss of purchasing power ran as high as $100,000,000. Though last week's settlement came in time to prevent large-scale stoppage of factories, ships or railroads, the effects of the strike will continue to be evident in chart and index for weeks to come...
Died. James Hardy, 64, famed aerialist; of heart disease; in Toronto. In 1896 he wire-walked across Niagara Falls. Though not the first,† Foolhardy Hardy was one of the rashest, capered, balanced on chairs...
...Though the story has little plot, neither has it the parochialism of most regional novels. And even plot addicts will agree that it tells a good story...