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Ever since the Board declared it would not peg prices for the 1931 wheat crop, its 1930 holdings have threatened the market with a selling avalanche. What, became the big wheat question, did the Farm Board propose to do with its supply? Hold it off the market? Dump it at every price rise? Dribble it out steadily...
...years New York City's custom has been to load most of its garbage aboard scows, tow them about 40 mi. to sea, dump them. Wind and tide drift much of the refuse back to shore, spreading it along New Jersey's otherwise fine resort beaches, polluting the water, depreciating property values. New Jersey asked the Supreme Court to enjoin New York's garbage dumping as a public nuisance. Last week the Supreme Court ordered the city to stop its evil practice, but allowed it a "reasonable time" (yet to be fixed) in which to construct garbage...
Price, then, is the first baffling element in the wheat problem: How can one sell at all without selling cheap? How can one sell cheap without dumping? How can one dump without cruelty...
Meantime, the Diamond gang's central liquor dump was found, $5.000 worth of beer, whiskey and wine confiscated in an outhouse behind the Aratoga Inn, near Cairo, where Diamond was host. And it began to appear that the bullet-riddled gangman, whose life was at first despaired of, would live to stand trial. Amazed at his recuperative powers, said his doctor: "He's lead proof. They can't kill...
...bade each other a tearful goodbye. Queen Victoria Eugenie and her children began their flight to France by driving to the Escorial, that rambling building 31 miles from Madrid that is at the same time a monastery, a church, a palace and a mausoleum, whose name is literally "The Dump." A curious crowd gathered at the Escorial railroad station where the Royal car, its white blinds drawn, stood coupled to a puffing locomotive. Queen Victoria Eugenie and her children descended to the Escorial crypt where lie the bones of the Kings and Queens of Spain. They prayed before their ancestors...