Word: seemingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Disposal. Nor did Chairman Legge seem worried as to what was to be done with all the Government's wheat. He laughed when asked once more about a big rumored sale to Italy, called it "unfortunately untrue." He stressed the Board's efforts to get farmers to feed wheat to their livestock, saying: "Why, one active energetic pig will eat as much wheat as a family of five persons. First give the pig a chance and there will be no surplus wheat in this country...
Smith and Holyoke have joined with Mass. Aggie and Amherst for the purpose of producing an intercollegiate daily newspaper. This new experiment in journalism will be watched with considerable interest by those colleges who cannot themselves support a daily paper. There seem to be many difficulties to prevent this alliance from becoming a success, but the instigators of the scheme deserve praise for their courage in attempting a venture in an entirely new field...
Their primary duty, of course, is to get news, both assigned and unassigned. At first glance, this would seem to be a difficult task. It is considerably lightened, however, by the fact that there are numerous more or less routine sources of news, which take care of the regular stories, and leave the candidate's time free for the far more absorbing work on "scoops." It is in this department that the candidate gains his most valuable experience...
Apropos the Princes and Maharajas, both Sir John and Lord Irwin recommend that the two Indias which exist today, namely the princely "Native States" and plebeian "British India" (see map p. 21) should eventually merge into "The Indian Federation," but both Report and Plan are pessimistic on this point, seem to fear that the haughty Indian rulers will refuse indefinitely to merge. During last week the conference did no more than formally assemble, will reach the first stages of discussing Report and Plan this week...
...from this last collapse. Stocks of copper in the Americas were at a new high of 605,000 tons. Shipments (deliveries to consumers) had gained slightly over the previous month, were still behind production. African production was running high. The price was at 9½?, did not seem secure. But by the end of the week it had jumped to 12? and producers still showed no inclination to sell in large amounts...