Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week U. S. granaries grew greater and greater with stored wheat. U. S. wheat markets went through heavy liquidation. U. S. wheat dropped below 95? per bushel, lowest price since 1923, and as low as the lowest low since the War. In recent years dollar wheat has been an ebbtide mark, a symptom of a demoralized market, a text for sermons on overproduction and the farmer. But last week dollar wheat would have been good news: 90? wheat seemed to be the new low level for which crop prices were heading...
Favorable to patent litigation is such an anonymous condition, and out of the radio world came last week announcement of a patent war. Attacking was Kolster Radio Corp. Defending were 19 radio-makers including Grigsby-Gruno (Majestic), National Carbon* (Eveready), Crosley, Zenith, Stewart-Warner, Sonora-"independent" set-makers all. Not included was Radio Corp. of America...
...Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, a track team from California has come out on top. Last year and the year before the winner was Stanford. Last week, on Franklin Field in Philadelphia, it was Stanford again, with 45 3/8 points, the highest total since the War...
Died. John Dickinson, 12, of Chicago, grandson of Tart-time Secretary of War Jacob McGavock Dickinson; in Chicago; by accidentally hanging himself at play...
...change his opinion of Harvard undergraduates were he to listen "to their comments on the CRIMSON article." They do not "dismiss it as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books," but rather as the initial move in an attempt to clear away the "War Posters" from the walls of Widener...