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Farm. One-half of the total number of U. S. farmers make less than $800 a year. The profits of only one-quarter exceed $1,200 per year, the Department of Agriculture's "minimum wage" for a farm family. Reason for low income: For every dollar the consumer pays for food, about 30 cents gets back to the farmer, 70 cents going for transportation, marketing, etc. The fanner gets no more because, ambitious, he grows too much, puts it up for sale. With all farmers doing this, a surplus is created, depressing prices. The farmer markets his goods individually...
...Otis Smith, Chief of the Geological Survey, to see the governors of "three or four" of the largest oil producing states, with a view to starting cooperative action.† Meanwhile crude oil production, lacking any restrictions, jumped up 30,850 barrels last week over the week prior, to a total of 2,658,100 barrels...
...until last week-more than ten years after the War-was Germany presented at Paris with a definite bill for reparations. The Dawes Plan fixed the maximum annual charge which Germany may be called upon to pay, but not the total sum. Last week at a plenary session of the Second Dawes Committee (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) the creditor powers presented Germany with a grand total reparations bill of $28,000,000,000, payable over 58 years.* Since the people of Germany roughly number 60,000,000, each man, woman, child and babe in the Reich is faced with...
...academic gesture the allies indicated that they would settle for $10,000,000 spot cash -an impossible sum, twice as great as the total value of all U. S. Banknotes now in circulation...
...purchase, however, according to W. C. Saeger, Bursar, was made purely for investment purposes, which is in line with the University policy of investing in Boston real estate. The total assessed tax valuation of the property which is under a long lease to Raymond's Inc., is $545,000. The sale price has however not been disclosed...