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...expected to pass on to consumers, must "equal the difference between the current average farm price for the commodity and [its] fair exchange value"- that is, pre-War parity. Thus the wheat processing tax last month would have been around 56? per bu., the cotton 7? per Ib., the beef 2¢ per Ib. Such taxpayers were made eligible to borrow the necessary funds from R. F. C. Processors of farm products for export were to get tax refunds. If the public tried to dodge the tax on cotton, for example, by turning to rayon, silk or linen, the Secretary...
...only the subjects. Each professor seems suddenly to have only one very shabby suit of clothes. Each enters the classroom with the same irritating shamble and toils through the day's matter in much the same monotonous drone. There is roast beef in all the Houses for breakfast and for lunch and for dinner, and for a demitasse. There is a very poor movie in all the theatres in town; there is very poor rhum in every bottle in Cambridge; there is a most strident and complaining voice through every fire door in the college. There is the same bland...
...show critics of the State's relief work. At the community market in York, maintained with State and Federal relief funds, they bought for $2.72 enough to feed 75 people. Oranges they got for 1? each, eggs for 17? the dozen, cabbage, onions, apples for 1? a lb., beef...
...lodging and eating houses, is opening a third. Average daily living cost is less than $1. In all these, most of the work is done by students. The University of Nebraska College of Agriculture has a cooperative. Last week Nebraska reported that two students, by cooking their own beef stew in large batches and baking their own bread, were feeding themselves for $3 a month apiece. Northwestern University, Wellesley, Smith. Mount Holyoke and M. I. T. have well-established houses. In a recent survey of college co-operatives by the Harmon Foundation. 113 out of 451 institutions replying had some...