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President Wilson's War Industries Board brought to Washington two men destined to play a large part in General Johnson's later life. One was the board's chairman, Mr. Baruch. The other was George Nelson Peek of Moline, Ill., who had spent 25 years with plow-making concerns in the Midwest. Meeting for the first time under Wartime pressure, this trio found that they all thought and acted pretty much alike about their joint problems. Each spoke his mind bluntly. Each dug hard for facts. Each could put his theories into practice. A three-cornered friendship...
...over, Mr. Baruch returned to Manhattan and Wall Street as the simon-pure capitalist who put his millions out to work for him and make more millions but took no regular business job. Mr. Peek induced General Johnson to resign from the Army in 1919, accompany him to Moline. There as president and vice president they took over Moline Plow Co., set out with high hopes to make millions of their own. But they had picked a dead cock in the pit. as Mr. Baruch could have told them. Failing to get the financing they had been promised, they were...
Before the take-off George Nelson Peek's Agriculture Adjustment Administration made two statistical decisions of primary importance. One was that current wheat prices were 30? per bu. below the 1909-14 average, so the Government's "allotment" to wheat growers would be 30? per bu. The other was that the U. S. consumes only five-eighths of its total wheat production, so the wheat grower would be paid on only five-eighths of his total crop. On tap in the Treasury was a $200,000,000 credit to get Domestic Allotment off the ground. Of this about...
...taught Donald to bite walls and people, and to peek under doors. Gua's many teeth were blunt and so hurt less than Donald's few. Gua hated perfume and asafetida; Donald liked perfume. Both reacted similarly to sweet, salty and bitter substances. Gua, however, liked sour things. Gua was more ticklish than Donald, frequently tickled herself for pleasure. Gua was first to recognize herself in a mirror, first to show interest in the pictures in a book...
...Secretary Wallace, with the aid of George Nelson Peek of Illinois and Charles John Brand of Minnesota who were appointed co-administrators last week, was ready to proceed cautiously with the other price-upping provisions of the law. His first step called for a series of Washington conferences with the producers and processors of each basic commodity to shape up an operating program on marketing agreements. If most millers consent to buy wheat from growers at $1 per bu., Secretary Wallace can suspend the anti-trust law to sanction such a bargain. If a minority group of millers refuse...