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Purpose of the meeting of tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists was to wave the U. S. flag, kick the New Deal, boost the Liberty League, damn bankers, irritate the petroleum industry and, most sincerely, to help the U. S. farmer earn a living by showing him and the rest of the nation how chemistry can turn farm products to industrial account...
Then no longer did the U. S. have to boost the world price: in Montreal, in London, in Shanghai and Bombay every-one wanted to own, no one to sell silver. In two days the world price passed the U. S. price, went right on up to 81?. Mining stocks boomed the world over. Fortunes poured into speculators' pockets...
...country. In March 1933 the U. S. knew what it was like to have all men suddenly want gold above all else. Last week silver standard China had a taste of the same, though silver instead of gold was the metal wanted. Ever since the U. S. began to boost the price of silver, China has had deflation. In vain the Chinese Government imposed a silver export duty. Silver was smuggled out. When silver prices last week sailed toward Heaven, China grew desperate. Finance Minister Kung appealed to all patriotic Chinese to keep their silver at home. Chinese Ambassador...
...which are supposed to exist, but more than twice the world's recent (1931-34) annual output. For practical purposes the U. S. had already cornered most of the floating supply. Eager to profit from the corner, speculators helped the U. S. boost the world price to the U. S. price, 71?. Last week when it reached that level, Franklin Roosevelt raised the ante for a second time, put the U. S. price...
...eight which he will send to Cambridge. The squad is so large this year at Princeton and so many of the boys are so evenly matched that the Tiger coach has had a hard time putting together his Varsity. As it is, it will not be the same boost which will race on the Charles that beat Penn A. C. Many shifts have been made in the bostings. Jack Kelly and Hank Bugbee have been advanced to the first boat to replace Grant Armstrong and Bud Smith...