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Corn. Estimated to be 2,660,680,000 bu.; was 2,900,581,000 bu. last year; sold currently at 80c to 90c a bushel. The U. S. leads the world in production. Next is Argentina which produces one-tenth as much. Iowa leads the U. S. The 1926 crop is excellent in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska. Rain is needed in Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas. In Georgia the crop has ripened late. Cold weather has injured the Wisconsin stand...
...Weimar in 1919. Recently the Luther Cabinet ordered that the merchant marine flag (black, white and red with a tiny black, red and gold field in the staff corner) should also be flown by German diplomatic and consular offices. This flag was denounced as "nine-tenths Imperial and only one-tenth Republican" by the Left parties; and last week Chancellor Luther was savagely interpellated about it in the Reichstag...
...took other colors: black, red and gold. Last week Germans were stirred to notable excitement when the Cabinet ordered that alongside the Republican standard there shall be flown by all German diplomatic and consular offices the Merchant Marine flag-a flag whose coloring is nine-tenths "imperial" and only one-tenth "republican...
...over fifty years ago, and it counts in its membership architects from all parts of the United States. There are in the Institute to divisions: That of the Members, comprising the large majority of those belonging to the Institute, and that of the Fellows. The latter compose less than one-tenth of the entire membership, and elevation to the rank of Fellow, is an honor conferred upon comparatively...
...states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi. North Carolina and South Carolina owe to British creditors repudiated debts, dating from the U.S. Civil War, to a total "with interest to date" of 50 million pounds ($250,000,000), or one-tenth of the present British debt...