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...many months there have been large-interests on the long side of the Chicago grain market. President Roosevelt had vowed to boost commodity prices first and at any cost in behalf of the farm producer. Last June wheat ran above $1 per bu. for the first time in three years. But even inflation talk, crop damages and drought could not hold it there, with the result that the long interests grew increasingly impatient. Mr. Morgenthau's pronouncement on rye pulled the plug in the holding dyke. There was not much sense in a heavy long position, traders argued, when...
...year. 2) A flat additional tax of 10% (to last for one year) on all personal income taxes after they have been calculated in the ordinary way-to yield $55,000,000. 3) A new estate tax, cutting exemptions from $50,000 to $40,000 and boosting the scale from a top of 45% to a top of 60% (on estates over $10,000,000)-to yield $90,000,000. 4) A boost of the surtax so that it will begin at 3% instead of 4% and make corresponding boosts in all the income brackets between...
...lecturing at Catholic University in Washington, D. C., author of the ''expanding universe" theory which views the present universe as shrapnel of one atom exploded some five billion years ago: the Francqui Prize of 500.000 francs ($23,000) for scientific work of such importance as to boost Belgium's prestige. Donor of the award, second only to the Nobel Prize, is Emile Francqui, banker, one of Europe's dozen richest men. ¶Died. Hugh Cosgro Weir, 49, publisher, author; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A telegram to Carl Laemmle Sr. brought Mr. Weir...
Black Ink for Red. The two big prospective deficits of 1934 and 1935 will boost the public debt to $31,834,000,000 by July 1, 1935. At that date the President would call a halt: "We should plan to have a definitely balanced budget for the third year of recovery [1935-36] and from that time on seek a continuing reduction of the national debt. This excess of expenditures over revenues amounting to over $9,000,000,000 during two fiscal years . . . is a large amount but the immeasurable benefits justify the cost. ... If we maintain the course...
...been endless talk as to the utopia which we shall have attained when prices and taxes are so regulated that the bootleggers are driven out of business; unfortunately, these charming bits of descriptive writing have of late been pushed off the front pages by articles on the latest boost in federal tax per gallon on all liquors. The thinking man has retired from all this balderdash and poppycock to splash about in an oversize bathtub of the good old home-mixed gin; and in so doing, he unconsciously indicates a way out for the nation...