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What Did Not Happen, and what President Roosevelt wanted most of all, was a thundering upward surge in commodity prices. Wheat moved up a paltry 1? per bushel to 92?, cotton added less thian ½? a pound. But corn, oats, rye, barley remained practically unchanged. Commodity tables duly recorded the weekly range of gold per ounce: low-$34.45; high-$35; last...
...Harvard. This means that he leaves the untried green shirted team to return to back position for Saturday's game. Due to illness and ineligibility because of unsatisfied language requirements, Dillingham has since his Sophomore year played but a few high scoring Varsity games and in the Intercollegiates at Rye, New York...
...price of bonded whiskey as high as $8 a qt., announced that it expected to make a 40% to 50% profit on all liquor sales. Consumers immediately began comparing whiskey prices with those in Government-owned Canadian stores and, except in a few instances, found wide discrepancies. Uncut rye was from $6.50 to $8 a qt. in Pennsylvania, from $3.08 to $4.25 in Canada...
Three other states, Montana, Ohio and Michigan, have government liquor monopolies. In Michigan the first State stores opened last week. Governor Comstock bought the first bottle-a pint of rye...
...When whiskey reached 65? a drink in Baltimore, the home of rye, Maryland Legislators became so incensed that they introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of "greatly increased" liquor prices...