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...have never heard it, "Hobben-dobben, ay-ay-ay-ay -ay -ni -ni -ni -ni-ni-ten-ten-ten-ten-SOLD." By crooks of fingers, nods of heads, distention of nostrils, the buyers make their bids known and slowly the auctioneer sways down the room until every stack is sold or else withdrawn by a farmer who thinks he can fetch a better price elsewhere...
...Senators next turned their attention to a stack of appropriation bills from which some $200,000,000 had to be shaved if the Budget was to be leveled up. First shaving: $3,000,000 off a $389,000,000 War Department supply bill...
...securities because they liked their engraving. Their purpose was to build up a mass of new credit which member banks would take and pass along to deflated Business. But member banks were not carrying out their end of this credit-expansion scheme. They let the Reserve's funds stack up unused at the Reserve banks instead of piping it out to customers...
...late spring of each year the hay crop is harvested, and all the hay piled in neat little stacks. At a given signal the freshman class rushes out and sets are to each and every little stack-- provided, of course, the campus cops lack the necessary strength or vigilance. Then, true to Stanford's symbol, the In- dian, all freshmen cavort merrily around the fires. In the end, the entire class faces an assessment, which is always paid without a murmur. It's just another tradition...
...cause of depressed prices. Almost at the same hour the Department of Agriculture was distributing its July 1 wheat crop estimate. This year's anticipated harvest was set at 869,013,000 bu., an increase of 5.583,000 bu. over last year's bumper crop. Such harvests stack one surplus on top of another, send prices down correspondingly. Acreage which the Farm Board has been pleading with growers to reduce 20% was cut less than 5%. While flaying short- sellers, President Hoover made no reference to the stubborn refusal of farmers to plant less grain...