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...Count Ciano gave most of his political dinners. Soon S. K. carried a guest card. At the Hunt Club he met Count Roberto Pinelli, member of the undersecretariat of the Ministry of War. S. K. and Pinelli discovered "a mutual enthusiasm for the writings of Thomas More," author of Utopia, 16th-Century blueprint of the society of the future. Though Pinelli wore "the founder emblem of the Fascist party . . . [S. K.] caught hints of his underlying hope that Fascism could and would eventually lead to the spiritual consolidation of Italy and the adoption of democratic principles." While waiting...
Died. George Edgar Merrick, 55, land-boom multimillionaire, founder and developer of Florida's Coral Gables; of heart disease; in Miami. He had been planning to develop modest land holdings into a Utopia for the aged when the boom started; within ten years he and his associates created a city of some 3,000 houses, sold an estimated $150,000,000 worth of land. In 1926 Merrick founded the University of Miami with a gift of $5,000,000 and land. When the boom collapsed, he lost his fortune, retired to a Florida key to run a small fishing...
...from the 1940 boom. Then came Lend-Lease, and with it Secretary Wickard's appeal for huge quantities of dairy, poultry and pork products. Although the wheat, cotton and corn surpluses remained oppressive, the demands for food crops had begun a price rise, which the Congressional hayseeds, smelling Utopia, quickly climbed aboard. It took a Roosevelt veto to stop them from freezing the surpluses; but nothing could stop them from raising the floor under farm prices, nor from demolishing Leon Henderson's gingerly attempts to give them a ceiling. Result: farm prices led all prices upwards; farm income...
Monroe's Utopia Sirs: You've been talking about the Army...
...Utopia is always somewhere else. The farmers want more. In Washington, Alabama's Senator John Hollis Bankhead advised farmers to keep their cottonseed off the market until prices hit $60 a ton (last week's price: about $47, an 18-year high). Wheat farmers have withheld so much (about 40%) of this year's bumper 950,000,000 bushel crop that the conservative Bureau of Agricultural Economics last week turned tipster, predicted wheat would jump another icxf; a bushel within a few months. It now figures 1941 U.S. cash farm income...