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...price paid in Long Island: $10,000. The Brothers Woodyard bought county seat weeklies for as little as $2,900. as much as $29,000 (Fayetteville, W. Va. Tribune). All prices were without receivables. Six months' earnings by Woodyard Publications were a little more than nearly 15% per annum...
...Nelson Peek as Agricultural Adjustment Administrator a short, nervous man named Chester Charles Davis, aged 46. Good friend of both Messrs. Peek and Wallace, Chester Davis has been in Washington since May when he was appointed to decide for John Farmer just how many hogs he may raise per annum. This he was able to do by virtue of long experience as a cowhand, hog raiser and wheat grower on his father's farm in Iowa...
...entire amount of securities sponsored by Dillon, Read & Co. from Jan. 1, 1929, to June 30. 1933, and had sold on the latter date all issues then in default at their then market prices, he would have received on his investment cash income averaging more than 4½% Per annum over the entire period, and, in addition, would have had sufficient cash income to make up the entire capital loss on the sale of his defaulted securities." A point made by the figures developed was the effect of Depression on the assets of Dillon. Read as compared...
...beet sugar producers and the cane sugar men from Florida, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines may succeed in their present drive at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to have U.S. imports of Cuban sugar reduced by a drastic quota to 1,700,000 short tons per annum-less than Cuba has exported to the U.S. in any year during the past generation. Cubans hoped that President Roosevelt would support their plea for a quota of not less than 2,200,000 short tons. Ever since the U.S. helped Cuba win independence from Spain, Cuban sugar has enjoyed...
Excerpts: "In the year of my advent upon these scenes, the annus mirabilis 1880, they took but $78,094,687 for flogging the elements into 15,065,767 pupils, which worked out to but little more than $5 per capita per annum. ... In 1914. the year of fate, there were 26,002,153 boys and girls in the schools, and making them fit for democracy cost $555,077,146 . . . four times as much as in 1880. . . . But then the pedagogues began to fall upon the taxpayer in real earnest, and presently they had him down and were turning his pockets...