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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Though the Farm Board would buy no more wheat - it is already about $15,000,000 in the red on its current holdings - George Sparks Milnor, president of Grain Stabilization Corp., the Board's market agency, did declare: "The grain trade need have no apprehension of competition from wheat held by Grain Stabilization Corp. during the coming months when farmers will be moving the 1930 crop to market, unless in the meantime prices rise to the level at which purchases were made [$1.15 to $1.18]. In no event will this 1929 stabilization wheat be thrown on the market...
...words of our Duce were opportune and justified. ... He had foreknowledge of the military preparations of France [i.e. the inclusion of $40,000,000 for military expenditures in the current French budget]. . . . Nobody in the world can have the colossal impudence to believe (hat the gigantic program of French armaments are in consequence of Signor Mussolini's speeches...
...current Dartmouth Alumni Magazine is an essay by Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, second son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., married last week (see p. 48). Subject: "The Use of Leisure." Excerpt: "Probably the thing from which I derived the most benefit in connection with The Five Arts* was the contact I had with outside speakers. . . . A day or so spent in the company of such men and women as Harry Emerson Fosdick, Thornton Wilder, Bertrand Russell, and Edna St. Vincent Millay are opportunities that few are fortunate enough to have...
...continued fall in commodity prices. Nearly every basic commodity was selling at a lower price than during any other post-War year, and some of the most deflated were going back to the beginning of the 20th Century. Years in which various commodities sold for approximately their current prices...
Editor Harry McGuire, writing in the current issue of Outdoor Life, places most of the blame for the new law on sheepmen, charges them with attempting "to get free grazing land." He concludes: "The more I see sheepmen, the better I like bears...