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...pressing agricultural needs of the Northwest" before" the Conference attacked the problem. He declared: "The principal purpose of this conference is to secure cooperation. Agriculture cannot stand alone. The banks cannot stand alone. A great amount of money has been spent to establish the population of the area affected...
...plan for a $10,000,000 corporation to be financed by private capital to aid in refunding farm debts. A committee of two Minneapolites, three Chicagoans and two New Yorkers was appointed to draft the charter of the corporation, which would make loans to sound banks in the agricultural area that are threatened by the emergency. Secretaries Mellon, Hoover and Wallace are to cooperate in the selection of committees to dispose of the capital stock...
...deadly destructive load of 6,900 pounds of bombs-enough to wreck a city. Yet with this enormous load the plane will reach a height of 13,500 feet, and at lower altitudes be able to fly with one of its motors completely out of commission. With a wing area of 1,500 square feet, a span of nearly 100 feet, it will be second in size only to the great Barling Bomber...
...crop. . . . Great numbers of individual farmers are so involved in debt both on mortgages and to merchants and banks that they are unable to preserve the equity of their properties. They are unable to undertake the diversification of farming that is fundamentally necessary for sound agricultural reconstruction of the area; they are unable to meet their obligations, and thereby has been involved the entire mercantile and banking fabric of these regions...
...area of the quake, 30 lives were lost. Many hundreds of dwellings collapsed, chiefly those that were damaged in September or temporary habitations. Railways, roads, telephone and telegraph were put out of action in many places. Several fires broke out, but were soon extinguished. Water works and mains in Yokohama and Tokyo were broken, flooding streets and houses. Some piers were wrecked at Yokohama, but the damage to shipping was reported to have been negligible...