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Weather. Despite scattered showers August failed to produce sufficient rainfall to break the drought as it did in 1901. Weather Bureau statistics indicated that the 1930 drought in duration and area was worse than the record-breaker of 29 years...
Governor Roosevelt accompanied his commissioners on their inspection, made speeches in rural Republican upState counties in which he envisaged a "second Pittsburgh" arising in that area, predicted speed in executing his plan. Said he: "If you have the kind of government in business that is successful, you pat yourself on the back and say it's fine and no one thinks about its being radical. If you haven't, why, then, everyone thinks it's altogether different...
Another dividend omitted was that of Warner-Quintan Co., Texan and Mexican producer and, in the New York area, a large distributor. Last spring Warner-Quinlan's dividend was bisected but President William W. McFarland said it would be resumed by the end of the year. This time he merely said conditions would be better...
...Bank Failures. Swelled by many failures in the South and the Chicago area, bank failures during the first half of the year were 471 against 354 last year, the Federal Reserve Board reported last week. Deposits in these banks were $210,000,000 against only $98,000,000 in the same six months last year. Sixty-two of the banks were members of the Federal Reserve...
...root of the Indian poke). Especially effective was a .5% mixture of veratrine and cocoanut oil. Applied to a live animal, this mixture killed the attacking fly immediately. Since there are great stretches of land in Zululand which are unfit for agriculture, protesters are advocating that some of this area be set aside as a game sanctuary. Separated from native villages and pastures by dikes and walls, wild animals would never come into contact with cattle. Similar reservations are already in existence in other African states. The largest is Kruger National Park, five million acres stretching from Johannesburg east...