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Observers recalled that the great Soviet organizer, Michael Borodin, a leading instigator of the China Nationalist Revolution (TIME, Dec. 13, 1926) is now periodically reported to be active in Mongolia. Once he and his squat, Buddha-like wife kept a cheap secretarial school in Chicago...
...Among the common advantages to British manufacturers starting in Canada are ridiculously low taxation, compared with the taxation in Great Britain, electricity, a comparatively cheap form of industrial power, and Canada's enjoyment of an enviable freedom from industrial disputes...
...something is wrong in the stock yards. Corn for May delivery passed $1.03¼ a bushel whereas hogs "at Chicago" sold from $6.65 per cwt. undressed. Foreign corn demand has made golden maize too dear for U. S. pigs to eat & grow fat. The pigs must die lean & cheap. Overproduction of litters, weaned on high priced feed, plus the abnormal foreign demand for corn explains the current departure from the inexorable "parity." Farmers must win back on corn what they lose on swine. Furthermore, the situation in rye (unexplained except for unrivaled Eastern demand), is unusually bullish...
...last week*.¶ Amended, passed and sent to the House the Norris resolution ordering the War Department to complete and operate the Government's $140,000,000 wartime power plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala., on the Tennessee River, and ordering the Department of Agriculture to experiment with making cheap nitrate fertilizers there, for sale at cost to farmers. ¶ Rejected by 39 votes to 29 the renomination of John Jacob Esch of Wisconsin to the Interstate Commerce Commission, after hot intersectional debate on his voting in coal-rate cases...
Newsmongers again put two and two together when Mr. Tunney purchased last week a 75-acre estate near Stamford, Conn., cheap...