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...huge surpluses of cotton and wheat. This will permit the exporter either to obtain the wheat and cotton from the corporation at world prices or to pay farmers the current domestic prices, then sell the commodities abroad at the much lower competitive world price and collect the difference from the Government. The difference will be big: U.S. cotton now costs between $15 and $25 a bale more than Brazilian cotton...
Said Boss Hillman, rubbing out the G.O.P.'s "Clear it with Sidney" campaign slogan: "President Roosevelt's reelection. . . has been cleared with the American people." Now Hillman, like Miner Lewis after 1936, could try to collect dividends on P.A.C.'s investment...
...Standard Brands could irradiate yeast, but nothing else. In all, the foundation has piled up a fund of $9,000,000. which eventually will go to the university. So far, the university has received $2,500,000. Estimated income this year: $1,600,000. Of this, Dr. Steenbock will collect his usual salary of $12,000, Haight nothing. (None of the foundation's founders, or subsequent members, has ever been paid anything...
...fact seemed clear: the bitter and extended fighting in Italy had forced the U.S. to drop the plan which Secretary Morgenthau once implied would saddle enemy countries with at least part of the cost of invasion. Now, the U.S. may have to pay as it goes, and try to collect at some future peace table...
...remember that precedent. He threatened to welch on a $17,500,000 debt. On the joint guarantees of the Dominion and Saskatchewan Governments, Canadian banks had advanced money so that Saskatchewan's farmers could buy seed after the 1937 drought. It was Saskatchewan's obligation to collect the money. Socialist Douglas proposed to collect only 50% of the principal from the farmers, give the Dominion a provincial I.O.U. for the balance. And to the Federal Treasury, which already holds some $75,000,000 of Saskatchewan notes, he added cheerily: "We are not concerned over giving the Dominion Government...