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...grain trader, Cargill, Inc., let out a yowl. Cargill, famed for cornering corn in 1937, had again bought heavily in corn, anticipating the OPA action. Now, with six million bushels on hand, it stood to lose "in excess of $1 million" if it could not sell grain on its futures contracts at the new ceilings. Cargill sued the Board of Trade for treble damages...
...Court. None of these traders was as powerful as Cargill. But one of them, Chicago's Robert W. Buckley, a well-heeled gentleman farmer and trader who had sold short, decided that he, too, would go to court. He persuaded Federal Judge William H. Holly to convene court nearly 45 minutes early on the day that the second ruling was to take effect, won a temporary restraining order against the Board of Trade...
...Trader Campbell had not been long at his post at Cape Wolstenholme when his manager showed him a girl brought in by an Eskimo hunter. "He thinks you need a woman," the manager casually explained. Offended by her dirt and smell, Campbell sent her packing...
This is no latter-day Swift describing a happy breed of his imagination. It is a young Canadian writing of his little-known Eskimo neighbors in the Far North. Husky, handsome Bruce D. Campbell spent four years there as a trader for the Hudson's Bay Co. Three years later, his R.C.A.F. bomber was shot down over Germany, and he became a prisoner of war. To pass the time, he wrote this book about the wonderful white world of the 6.000 North American Eskimos (world Eskimo population...
...high school; she borrowed money and enrolled at the New Haven, Conn. Normal School of Gymnastics. When she graduated, several high schools offered her jobs as a physical instructor, but she took one that paid less, at the University of Kentucky. "I'm a horse trader by nature," says Sarah Blanding. "I told the University I'd take their job if they'd let me go to college in the mornings...