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With corn at 40?, farmers who had borrowed 57? a bushel on 257,000,000 bu. started to unload about 100,000,000 bu. on Commodity Credit Corp. Hurriedly Secretary Wallace bought steel bins to hold 50,000,000 bu., hoped this would prop up the sorry corn market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROPS: Irony | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Jewish-Communist plot to overthrow the U. S. Government next August by the ingenious means of bringing in 150,000 Communists, mostly ex-Loyalist Spaniards. The importees would seize U. S. arsenals, take over public utilities and transportation facilities. Meanwhile, rich Jewish conspirators would unload their securities, creating financial chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTOLERANCE: Boo! | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...plus the hidden treasure of India and the mines of the Rand), will no longer add to the top-heavy U. S. gold cache ($15,867,000,000), some 60% of the world's supply. This means that English speculators will no longer be free to unload gold, which is of no present use to the U. S., in exchange for valuable U. S. securities and commodities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Buy British | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Much distressed, the Air Corps quietly went to work on Capitol Hill to get Negro training killed or unload it on the Civil Aeronautics Authority before the rearmament bill is finally enacted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: More Eagles? | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...stop indiscriminate selling of hunting licenses, John H. Baker, executive director of the National Association of Audubon Societies, proposed examinations comparable to automobile drivers' tests. An applicant, he mildly suggested, should be made to show his knowledge of how to load, carry, fire and unload a gun, prove his ability to read game laws and posted signs, know by sight the game birds and animals in his vicinity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wildlife Conference | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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