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...unsuspected quarters. In Manhattan heavy shipments from North Carolina helped send old crop quotations crashing from $4.40 per bag to $3.50. New potatoes tumbled from $7.75 per bbl. to $5.50. Speculating in potatoes is ticklish business because there is no potato futures market, and operators find it hard to unload in a hurry. In last week's flurry a number of speculators were caught with their hands full of hot potatoes. And cool week-end rains in the East did not add to their comfort...
...shooed off, Iried Sark and alarmed the Channel Islands' Royal Court into passing a special ordinance against him. The Santa Maria lolloped around Land's End to autonomous Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, but the British Home Office bestirred itself to forbid Captain Allen to unload...
...later comes to all of us in these four years; in addition, he has hinted indirectly at a tendency of many to conclude that the more facts one amasses the less one actually knows about life. Cynics often claim that the only advantage of a college education is to unload the mind of the prejudices and ideals bred in the family bosom. Henry Adams was rather more gentle in saying that if it did nothing else, Harvard College left the mind...free from bias...docile...
...Liverpool, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Winnipeg, wheat also went down in confusion. Other commodities, notably corn and rye, slid off sharply. The news: After weathering years of economic crises, farm unrest, public criticism and political skulduggery, the Canadian Wheat Pool was about to unload its holdings on the world. If the job was executed recklessly, then world wheat was in for a grand smash...
...Chief Don Irwin, dipping their hands into his hat. A slip of paper told each man which 40 acres, barring swaps, failure or despair, were to be his home until he died. Without a stop to look at their new land, the 136 new colonists pitched in to help unload the train, scatter farm equipment and household goods among eight temporary tent colonies...