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...Weather Bureau men last week compiled their July reports, declared the month was hotter and dryer over a larger area for longer periods than any other July in recorded U. S. weather history. The drought came too late to affect the wheat crop but it did, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, "much irreparable damage" to corn. Live stock, lacking pasturage and water, was rushed to slaughter houses before it died. The Farm Board prepared plans for "drought loans" to carry husbandmen over until next year...
...conversation the Levands affect an injured air. They say that whereas attacks against them are politically or racially motivated, they "are only trying to give Wichita a good paper." Latest official figures appear to support the Levands' claim, of having the biggest newspaper in Kansas...
...later notation tells of, "putting the apparatus over the poles of a bar magnet and [found] it easy to affect the galvanometre." Conclusion drawn: "This must show that as long as the wheel moves electricity is evolved. . . . Must consider 'this more presently. Probably build a machine...
...foreign tariff reprisals alarmed big exporting industrialists as much as the prospective disruption of the world trade cycle. Thirty nations have filed 161 specific protests against items in the Hawley-Smoot bill. Canada, best U. S. customer, has made a provisional upward revision of its tariff which would adversely affect 25% of the goods imported by the U. S. and give British imports a much higher preference rating. Cuba was moving in the same direction...
...return of Carol to the throne of Rumania is sure to affect more than the internal situation in that country. The new king, while something of an enigma to political students, is known to have very definite ideas about international affairs. The exact nature or import of these ideas is a question which will occupy the attention of more than one European foreign secretary until such time as some actual portents are visible...