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...three hours before the shattered City of Memphis was found. Then ground crew stumbled on an isolated clearing on the Behlmann farm, found 400-ft. swath through the corn strewn with the wreckage of the $50,000 all-metal plane. Scattered among the debris were the bodies of the eight victims, all killed instantly. The pilot's watch had stopped...
...days later the same board predicted a "disaster"' corn crop of 1,439,135,000 bu., worst in 55 years, down 850,000,000 bu. from last year's harvest. *The phrase originated on the floor of the U. S. Senate in 1858 when South Carolina's James Henry Hammond challenged the economic power of the North thus: "You dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is King...
...skilled worker in the olive fields, who seduces his best friend's sweetheart, plays the guitar with native genius, tries to blow up a dam, plots against the village priest, endures torture and a year in prison, gets free in time to burn a great store of corn, become reconciled with the friend he had betrayed, and dies as one of the leaders in the Asturian revolt...
Last week rains broke the drought in the South, gave hope of moderate crops. Still in critical shape were the corn states which, heat or no heat, could produce no more than 74% of their normal crop. Added to the list of emergency drought states was Governor Landon's Kansas, where Soprano Marion Talley's 1,600 acres of wheat were scorched brown...
...large part of the entire U. S. spring wheat crop was but worthless stubble. Winter wheat on the other hand had already been mostly harvested. Early in June the price of wheat was less than 85? per bu. Last week it sold as high as $1.10. In corn the damage could still be averted by a few good rains, but the possibilities of serious crop failure boosted corn prices from about 60? per bu. in May to last week's high of 85?. Oats were up from a low this year of 25? per bu. to 40? barley from...