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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early stages of another war Poland can use this border network. If the Poles are forced to retire, as expected, they will have no rail network to supply them but beyond a certain point the advancing Germans will also be without such communications close up to their lines...
...Tompkins Wright, started a movement to oust President-elect Leach. But Dr. Leach clung on. He insisted that he had been framed by Federal agents in 1928. "I had only one quart of Sandy MacDonald in my possession," he said, "and I was taking it home for my personal use." He promised to resign if the convention would only pass a motion vindicating...
...That the use of various seals, coupled with assurances appearing throughout the magazine, "mislead . . . the . . . public into the erroneous belief that all articles advertised . . . or articles which bear the seal in one of its several forms, have been scientifically tested in ... laboratories. . . . In truth and in fact, all the articles . . . have not been tested and approved by any scientific laboratory...
...Market? There were indications that Nazi deviltry was not wholly responsible for last week's bearish market. Stocks rarely go up when falling commodity prices reflect business unwillingness to bid for materials for future use. This unwillingness was already apparent by July 22 when the Department of Labor's wholesale price index fell sharply on its way to a new post-Depression low (74.8% of 1926), again in early August when both the Dow-Jones Index of future commodity prices and Moody's index of spot commodity prices slumped sharply...
...they soon found Federal control was complex and hard to understand. It also brought into the milkshed a formularized way of figuring milk prices: the "blended price." Milk was classified by the use to which it was put-from $2.25 per cwt. for Class I (bottled milk) down to 94? for Class IV-B (American Cheddar cheese), average estimated at $1.65 per cwt. To farmers who knew one gallon of milk cost about as much as another, who distrusted the reports of milk utilization turned in by dealers (although checked by the Department of Agriculture), this seemed an injustice. Many...