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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Wheat. The Canadian Wheat Pool was a full-fledged organization in 1924. It attempted to control world prices, failed. The Federal Farm Board, set up last year, has pegged the price of wheat in the U. S. but found no way of disposing of its surplus. The result may be transferring the loss from the farmers to all the taxpayers. To limit production in future, the Board has for months been urging, begging, warning U. S. farmers to plant less wheat, at least 15% less. Last week the Department of Agriculture reported a 1.1% acreage reduction in 1931 winter wheat...
...Erode, Madras, India, 45 students at the London Mission School collapsed after luncheon. Thirty of them and the school cook died in agony; 15 were in critical state. In the soup pot, physicians found a well-cooked venomous lizard...
Last week U. S. scientists read with interest that Dr. Paul Renno Heyl, U. S. Bureau of Standards physicist, had determined more accurately than ever before the value of G, constant of gravitation. He found it to be .00000006670 dynes.* The most commonly accepted value for G has been .00000006658 dynes obtained in 1895-96 by Physicists Charles Vernon Boys in England and Karl Ferdinand Braun in Germany...
After the boundaries had quieted down a peasant found the frontier ran through his house, making his lavatory foreign ground. It would have taken him two weeks, every time, to get his passport visaed...
...full of ambition and high ideals. Poor, unmarried, a farmer, he had lived a progressive but black-&-white life, and as a Congressman expected to do the same on a grander scale. In Washington he was seen with the wrong people, got off to a bad start. His ambition found little outlet on the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers. Then he met Senator Miller's wife, beautiful, socially powerful, a teaser. Congressman Carson had left a girl behind in Wisconsin: more worldly-wise than he, Irma Schmultz (for such was her plain name) insisted he keep...