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...customary demands: 1) concentration on agriculture for the benefit of a hungry-Reich at the expense of industrial development; 2) preferential rights to Germany on all surpluses. Incidental demands included a 20% increase in the official exchange value of the reichmark in terms of dinars, added quotas of corn, copper and lead to replace the wheat Yugoslavia cannot deliver because of a disastrous harvest, and 600,000 tons of iron ore a year to bring the German supply up to the pre-air-raid level. Promised reward: an economic role in the New Order. The Yugoslav Government finally signed...
...Roscoe Crafton's idea. Set a-thinkin' by the national publicity given the Corn Belt's annual corn-husking championship, he got some fellow cotton merchants to form an association last winter, sow the seeds of a national cotton-picking contest. "Wide open to the world" it would be. So they sent invitations to the Cotton Belt's Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs, asking them to sponsor an entrant apiece...
Brusque, able, serious-minded Joseph Ball is called by other Minnesota political writers the best-grounded writer on government in the Twin Cities. Popular, but no handshaker, with 180 Ib. on his 6 ft. frame, he was born in Crookston, Minn., raised seed corn to pay his way through a year of Antioch College, went to the University of Minnesota (but did not graduate), got a job on the Minneapolis Journal when he was 21, married a reporter on the same paper, took a year off, like all newspapermen, to free-lance writing fiction. Back on the St. Paul Despatch...
...Membership, 120,000. Others: American Farm Bureau Federation, 2,950,000; National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, 800,000; National Cooperative Council, 1,500,000. *The Wallace Family still has a small interest in a firm for producing hybrid seed corn. Wallaces' Farmer and Iowa Homestead (whose poll last week showed Iowa farmers 34% for Roosevelt, 34% for Willkie, 32% undecided) passed out of the Wallace control early in the depression...
...American Chemical Society convened in Detroit last week, Professor Ernst Berl of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute for Technology made an astonishing announcement. He said he had made, experimentally but successfully, oil, coal, coke and asphalt from grass, leaves, seaweed, sawdust, scrap lumber, corn, cornstalks, cotton...