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What was proposed was that Germany buy on long-term credits a large quantity of the Federal Farm Board's 200,000,000 bu. of stabilized wheat and 1,300,000 bales of stabilized cotton. The Farm Board could thus unload some of its expensive holdings, U. S. commodity prices might be boosted, and the German Government would make some money. While Ambassador Sackett was diplomatically urging German officials to make an offer, President Hoover reviewed the "happy idea" with his cabinet. The Farm Board announced it was ready to sell to Germany on credit if the offer were...
...opium system: restricted sales under Government monopoly. If shrewd Minister Soong does harness opium to his Treasury chariot, he may find a way to balance the Chinese budget for some time to come, may find opium an aid in standing off the U. S. silver producers who want to unload on China a silver loan (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week Senator Key Pittman of silver-surplussed Nevada announced in Washington that he will sail next month to confer with Dr. Soong...
...Assemblies," where they see to it that the school's work?scrubbing, window-washing, leaf-raking, everything but cooking?is performed properly. Four or five times a term a whole form gets a holiday, goes out to work on the school farm (one of Connecticut's finest) or to unload a carload of coal?anything that needs to be done...
This Farm Board announcement caused a 2½ per bu. break in the Chicago wheat market. Many a grain trader assumed that the Board was starting to unload its huge wheat holdings...
...local emergency, such as the arrival of a carload of perishable foodstuffs with no one about to unload them, an agent will simply command all men within the sound of his voice to begin unloading, and will probably also command the station master to pay them for their trouble...