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...high hurdles--Won by Green (H); second, Kickham (BU); third, Henderson (NU); fourth, Hakanson (NU); Crawford (H). Time--15 1-5 sec. (new record...
...farmers had planted 44,306,000 acres in winter wheat last autumn, said the report. Drought and dust had forced them to abandon 12,405,000 acres. The wheat standing on the remaining 31,901,000 acres on April 1 was estimated to yield 435,499,000 bu.- 69% of normal. That was slightly more than last year's yield, but far below the 618,000,000-bu. average of the last five years. East of the Mississippi, and particularly in the Ohio Valley where the soil was moist, crops were in good condition. But west of the river...
Quickly the Government ticked off its charges. Mr. Cutten had misreported or had failed to report in 1930-31 his long & short positions of 500,000 bu. or more, as the Grain Futures Act requires. He had split his trading into 35 accounts in eight brokerage houses, putting the accounts under the names of relatives and associates. While each account seldom went over 500,000 bu., the total of all accounts often exceeded that amount. Would Mr. Cutten please show cause why he should not be barred from trading...
...friends were sure that the speculator who, once a $7-a-week stockboy in Chicago's Marshall Field's, had made $1,500,000 in corn in a single month and ten years ago cornered more wheat than any man in history (about 20,000,000 bu.), would appeal his case or transfer his trading activities to Canada where he was born. But later that day Speculator Cutten declared laconically: "What's the use of trading? The market doesn't move...
...basic ingredients in the Intrigue were simple: 36,000,000 Ib. of potatoes in storage, worth a mere 35? a bu. compared to their $1.37 ancestors of 1930; 3,000,000 potato farmers, bitter when they think what AAA has done for cotton, for tobacco, even for such a "basic commodity" as peanuts; two railroads eager for potato traffic; a Secretary of State devoted to foreign trade; three great potato regions -Idaho, Maine and the South Atlantic Seaboard-and three great potato statesmen...