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Ocean City. The reclaimers of Flushing dump could be reasonably sure that any exposition erected there would be a delightful improvement on the scene, but San Francisco's exposition builders were far from such a certainty. For the city and harbor of San Francisco constitute one of the great urban beauties of North America. San Francisco Bay is not only vast-48 miles long, embracing 450 square miles of roadstead-but magnificently visible, cupped by the steeply carved mountains of the coast range. San Francisco rises in clean, pale tiers of buildings on the hilly peninsula between this shining...
...from Argentina, No. 1 South American wheat country, against Mr. Theis's announced plan to sell 15,000,000 bushels of wheat in Brazil under the U. S. aegis. Right beside the protest was a careful explanation of the Theis thesis: Although he was going to Brazil to dump wheat (he used the more polite word "sell"), he was just a plain businessman, not a U. S. Government agent...
...went to New York and in the printing shop the H. A. A. was using they took a great interest in all that was going on. But the numbers were no where to be seen. It was not until they had followed the plant's rubbish to the city dump and paid out no end of hush money that the valuable information came into their hands...
Into an auto dump at Bournemouth, England, one day last month drove a motorist looking for a spring for his automobile. After three hours' search he discovered one the right size, returned to his car to find that another spare-part hunter had dismantled his engine looking for a flywheel...
Meanwhile, with no explanation except that it was following the Canadian subsidy program, AAA started Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. on a wheat-buying spree. FSCC will buy 100,000,000 bu. around prevailing prices (62?), dump it abroad for whatever it will bring. Estimated cost: $25,000,000. Although Chicago prices shot up 3? a bu. as short holders ran for cover, likely ultimate effect of the dumping program will be to depress already-depressed world prices...