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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stored wheat. U. S. wheat markets went through heavy liquidation. U. S. wheat dropped below 95? per bushel, lowest price since 1923, and as low as the lowest low since the War. In recent years dollar wheat has been an ebbtide mark, a symptom of a demoralized market, a text for sermons on overproduction and the farmer. But last week dollar wheat would have been good news: 90? wheat seemed to be the new low level for which crop prices were heading...
...Sherwin has tried to put on the screen a real moving picture of this life, taking John Gay as his central figure. Evidently a scholar whose acquaintance with his material has not been gained solely in text-books and Hogarth's prints, he has tried to set down some of the more intimate aspects of the life of the day, and has succeeded to a certain extent. If the reader himself has a vivid imagination, he may put Mr. Sherwin's pictures in his mind's eye and build up out of them a fine scene of rum and riot...
...position of America as a creditor nation are all discussed, and a whole section is devoted to review of the economic situation in the leading countries and their probable place in the postwar world of commerce. The author's long experience has enabled him to enliven the text with numerous anecdotes and illustrations that make the book not only informative but interesting reading as well...
...prices of second hand text books never fail to produce a paradox in the mind of the average amateur trader. Somehow when he comes to sell his books in the Spring the return seems to bear little relation to the remarkable outlay required of him in September. The reason of course is clear enough, the cost of handling and storage are so great that in order to make a fair profit the dealers in such literature have to pocket about twenty percent of the list price...
...other end of the line, these books go out to men who feel the pinch of high text book prices and at their purely nominal rental help fill a very real need...