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...chief jewels in the Kaiser's crown. He wanted to remind them too that it was from German East Africa that the commerce raider Konigsberg, almost as spectacular as the Emden, started in 1914, and that it was not far from Tanga harbor that she was finally sunk with colors flying...
...that Japan would surely ratify, the Administration announced through the Navy Department that the battleships Utah, Florida and Wyoming would drop out of the fleet line Oct. 1. The Florida will be scrapped. The Wyoming, dismantled, will serve as a training craft. The Utah will be towed to sea, sunk in target practice...
...Richfield Oil Co. of California. With similar foresight, Richfield Oil Corp. of New York last week announced its first floating service station, specially built to supply seaplanes and watercraft. All tanks are below deck, with no projection above except an office at the stern. The fuelling pumps are sunk in pits to safeguard the wings of aircraft drawn alongside. Richfield plans 99 similar units, painted with blue & buff checks for easy recognition from...
Board Troubles. Cheerless last week was the Federal Farm Board's first birthday. During the year Chicago wheat had tumbled from $1.20 per bu to 86¢. The Board had sunk $75,000,000 in the purchase of 60,000,000 bu. of 1929 wheat on which it stood to lose $35,000,000. Farm prices were at their lowest level in eight years...
...agricultural implement trade in foreign countries so as to enable those countries to better compete with the American wheat farmer?" On the platform beside him Chairman Legge clamped his cigar, made no answer. When his turn to speak came he explained that the Farm Board had already sunk in wheat twice the crop's proportionate share of the $500,000,000 stabilization fund. Said he: "Fellow farmers! At least I hope some of you are farmers. . . . Are you fellows mendicants or beggars that you want more [U. S. funds]? ... If you'd quit being a confirmed individualist and organize...