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whose names all begin with Bu and two end in ch, leaving but one letter different in the names of the latter. The first and last of the three have the first three letters, Bur, the same...
...hovering around 49? before it slipped to 47¾?, then plunged to 43⅛?. Statisticians burrowed into their records and announced that the price was the lowest recorded since 1852, four years after the Board of Trade was founded. Viewing the estimated North American surplus of 700,000,000 bu., economists predicted still lower prices. Where once $1 wheat was a bogey, 40? wheat seemed now a plain probability...
...Republicans but we've got eleven votes for you in our family and we'd have two more if the youngsters were of voting age. At the price quoted when Hoover was inaugurated the 30,000 bu. of corn I'm now harvesting would be worth $28,500 in Omaha. But instead it's worth only $8,100, a clear drop of $20,400. And my 350 hogs at the price when Hoover became President would be worth $4,120, but at this year's prices would bring only $1,015. The drop in my corn and hogs totals...
...rich Aroostook Valley, connecting with the Canadian Pacific at Washburn Junction and Bangor & Aroostook ("The Potato Road") at Washburn. Its stations include Sweden. Adaline, Caribou, Bugbee, Carson and Presque Isle Junction, near where dwells Mr. Gould. Freight comprises 85% of its business, there being 140 potato depots holding 5.000.000 bu. of potatoes along its right-of-way. The road is electrified, buying its power from a station...
...years Home Publishing Co. Ltd. wandered through the wheat deserts of western Canada building prestige and circulation for Western Home Monthly. Twelve months ago the firm decided it was time to enter the more fertile publishing fields of the populous East. With wheat at 50? a bu., Western Home Monthly (headquarters: Winnipeg) found its readers broke. The magazine "went national," guaranteed an A. B. C. circulation of 180,000 by October 1932, a boost of some 60,000 over the distribution it then had. With a whoop of delight, last week the publishers announced that the goal had been reached...