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...spent his days puttering with candy on the kitchen stove, finally concocted some sweets made of fresh fruit and vegetables. Each day he slipped out of the flat, went to Times Square. There he tied a placard on his chest, stood by subway exits selling candies made from corn, spinach, beets, carrots, peas. Too proud to tell his wife what he was doing, he explained each night that he "sold to old customers." One day a newshawk discovered him. When the story of his plight was published, letters and checks poured into his apartment. Peddler Washburne returned the checks with...
...notably unmelodious voice last week brought cheer to Congressmen sick for home amid the alien corn of Washington...
...Armour and Swift got injunctions in Chicago forbidding the Government to collect hog processing taxes. In Virginia, P. Lorillard (Old Golds) and Philip Morris opened suits against tobacco processing taxes. In Detroit, Denver and Kansas City Federal judges restrained the Government's tax collections. Processing taxes on wheat, corn, hogs, cotton, tobacco were contested. A temporary injunction against the operation of the Bankhead Cotton Act was issued in the Texas courts. All told, AAA found itself facing 705 court challenges, which meant that 705 processors were eager to maintain before the law that the Christmas gifts farmers have been...
...Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimates that it will be the lightest in 30 years, perhaps no heavier than in 1902 when only 4,750,000 pigs went to market in the July-September period. Drought and the AAA's restriction program have reduced the number of hogs on corn-belt farms 37% in the past year...
July 1 estimate 1934 (in bu.) Production Wheat 731,045,000 496,929,000 Corn 2,044,601,000 1,377,126,000 Oats 1,266,243,000 528,815,000 Barley 316,850,000 118,348,000 Rye 53,100,000 16,040,000 Apples 1 70,000,000 119,855,000 Tobacco...