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...Eleven of the 1930 lynchees were illiterate while only one had reached the fifth grade in school. Many of them were "defective half-wits...
Chicago traders attributed this rise in wheat prices, with other grains tagging along, entirely to the Soviet crop failure. Not only was the Russian production short but grade was inferior. Russia had contracted to supply many a European market with wheat which did not exist. While Soviet officials scrambled to buy back their contracts, France, Germany, Italy turned to the U. S. and Canada for their supply. The Australian and Argentine crops would not come in until January. Meanwhile Europe was reported to have a scant four weeks supply (65,000,000 bu.) of wheat on hand fit for milling...
Savage Arms Corp., which has expanded into such by-products as washing machines, refrigerators, has also expanded in its principal business. Its most notable acquisition came last year with the purchase of A. H. Fox Gun Co. of Philadelphia, famed for high-grade shotguns. Savage also holds U. S. rights to the Lewis Machine Gun and the patents for the Driggs-Schroeder gun, used in the Army and Navy. This year the company has lost money, fortnight ago it passed its dividend...
...this is well-known, the movement for public sex education has gone slowly, necessarily from the higher branches downwards. Last week there came evidence of its present situation. Willard Walcott Beatty, superintendent of schools in Bronxville. N. Y., wrote for the New York Times an account of the seventh-grade course which has been given in his schools for the last five years...
Parents are informed beforehand of the nature of the course; children are urged to carry home the classroom discussions. Parents and teachers, reports Superintendent Beatty, find Elementary Biology useful; many believe that it should be taught sooner, in the fifth or sixth grade...