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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...keep in close touch with the mill prices to retailers over the state all of the time. When wheat on Aug. 3, 1929, was $1.44 per bushel, Chicago option, Omaha cash was $1.34 to $1.40 per bushel. The mill quotations on standard flour, Omaha in car lots, for that date was $6.50 per barrel. Bran, $27.50 per ton and shorts $33.50 per ton. Last Friday, Aug. 8, 1930, the Chicago option was 96 ½? per bushel. The mill quotations were on standard grade flour, $4.70 per barrel. Kran $24 per ton semi shorts...
Thus was called to national attention a virtual war which has been raging in Webster County since July 1. On that date, 75% of the county's coalminers, all of whom had walked out April i protesting against a wage cut, demanding better working conditions (contrary to the advice of their union, United Mine Workers of America), returned to their jobs, starved & weary. The other 25% set about trying to resume the strike; 19 are under indictment for intimidation. Fort- night ago, several dynamite explosions boomed in plants of the Diamond Mine Co., Meador, Holt & Young Co. Then last...
...Cook Islands, that the Tahiti was sinking while two U. S. vessels, the Matson liner Ventura and the Shipping Board's Antinous were rushing to the rescue. Reason: first news of the sinking Tahiti came from Suva, a Fiji island just west (from New York) of the International date line (180° east of Greenwich) a spot where the sun rises 14 hr. ahead of New York. At 9:30 o'clock of a midwinter Monday morning Suva announced the sinking Tahiti's 175 passengers were safely transferred to the Ventura. New York papers recorded the fact...
...Insull's onetime office boy, Composer Hamilton Forrest (TIME, Nov. 4). Like Verdi's La Traviata it is based on La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. Unlike Verdi, Composer Forrest has employed jazz songs and themes, changed the story to bring it "up-to-date," employed dialog described as "stark in its reality...
Birthday. Nathalia Crane of Brooklyn, who at 10 gained fame with her book of poems The Janitor's Boy. Age: 17. Date: Aug. 11. Celebration: Telling about her new poem Pocahontas, in which eight modern poets chase the Communists from the U. S., make Pocahontas queen...