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...Oklahoma, thirstier for rain than it has been for seven years, frankly reported a "bad drought." Cotton opened prematurely. Corn was about 57% of normal. Peanuts were expected to be a total loss. Wheat was less than half of last year's production (29 million bu. v. 61 million bu.). Pastures and stock ponds dried up, made the feed shortage so acute that many cattlemen were sending their livestock to market ahead of schedule...
Grain traders estimated that during the whole 41-day lifetime of the Government guarantee, which was designed to bring more corn to market, only 35,000,000 bu. (less than 2% of a normal year's crop) were shaken out of the growers' corncribs. This was to be expected; the Government had fixed it that way by promising hog prices that made corn-in-the-hog worth $1.35-1.40 a bu. v. $1.07 a bu. (ceiling price) as grain...
...among us would change places with our civilian sisters? Who would give up the comfort of flat heels and lisles, or our little gremlin suits or the mail-box mob or rows of wet white gloves, or disbursing problems, or our mail from Bu Sand A? Not We! We Would rather flirt with Portsmouth. After all, you could win fame knitting socks for chilly sailors-and who knows, membership in the Portsmouth Outing Club could be exciting-well novel anyway...
...Bu thon-ki-du-ke (Have you worms...
...Created an actual corn shortage. (If hogs continue to consume corn at the present rate, the U.S. will have only 25,000,000 bu. at next season's end-one-twelfth the normal carry-over...