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...first ten men to finish in the Varsity race were as follows: Pen Tuttle '40 (H), John Frederiksen (BU), Sam Wilson (BU), Roswell Brayton '39 (H), David Simboli '40 (H), Gene Clark '40 (H), Bob Nichols '41 (H), George Gardner '39 (H), Richard Wing '40 (H), Edmund Childs...
James Igo of Boston University won the Freshman 1 7-10 mile race in 14 minutes, 13 4-5 seconds. Second was Robert Jay of Harvard, who lost in a final hundred-yard spurt with Igo. The first ten Freshman finishers are James Igo (BU), Robert Jay (H), George Byrom (BU), John Sopka (H), William Dias (H), Charles Robins (H), W.H. Young (H), Abbott Fenn (H), Tom McElligott (H), Richard Herlihy...
Meanwhile, with no explanation except that it was following the Canadian subsidy program, AAA started Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. on a wheat-buying spree. FSCC will buy 100,000,000 bu. around prevailing prices (62?), dump it abroad for whatever it will bring. Estimated cost: $25,000,000. Although Chicago prices shot up 3? a bu. as short holders ran for cover, likely ultimate effect of the dumping program will be to depress already-depressed world prices...
...Loans on the 1937 corn crop were upped from 50 to 57? a bu...
Whether or not this year's surplus problems can be solved, the AAA last week fixed 1939 benefit payments at 26-to-30? a bu., 14-18? above the 1938 rate, for U. S. wheat farmers who reduce their acreage 31%. Otherwise, next year's crop-control program is substantially the same as this year's. Total amount earmarked for 1939 benefit payments...