World Wheat Situation Sees Prices Hover as Seeding Nears
Western Canada faces seeding with prices below production costs. Canada shipped over half of global exports, while Europe built bumper stocks and tariffs rose. US output collapsed from 1931 levels, Australia and Argentina added to supplies, leaving Canada with about 120 million bushels carryover after exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western
Canada
Donald M. Marvin
Royal Bank of Canada
Orient
Europe
Germany
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Greece
Holland
Scandinavia
Czecho-Slovaka
France
Western Europe
Russia
Danubian
United States
U.S
Broomhall
Australia
Argentina Ships Over Fifteen Million Tons in Ten Months 1932
Argentina moved more than 15 million tons of products in the first ten months of 1932. Oil discoveries in Austria align with Texas type geology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argentina
Austria
Texas
Revival Forecast For Timber Industry In Prince Rupert
A. E. Parklow district forester at the Prince Rupert chamber of commerce annual meeting warned that log and lumber stocks are at three year lows. He said improved business will spark immediate logging and milling to fill orders while yard poles and utility lines require replacements and railways must order large replacements to maintain lines as 1932 marked the low ebb and 1933 may return to normal activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Parklow
Prince Rupert
Seed Catalogues Spur Indoor Gardening Craze
Canadian gardeners increasingly turn to seed catalogs as winter ends. The A. E. McKenzie Company of Brandon mails its prairie province catalogue with familiar varieties and new strains like Sand Cherry and Crested Wheat Grass. The catalogue also promotes the World Grain Exhibition in Regina with contests offering 5215 in cash prizes for letters and attendance predictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. McKenzie Company, Ltd
Brandon
Prairie Provinces
Canada
McKenzie
Western
Regina
Devise Artificial Heart Report From Moscow Institute
Two doctors at the Institute for Blood Transfusion claim to have created an artificial heart that revived life signs in dogs. They used it to operate on living dogs, stopping the real heart for four and a half minutes. The work is said to open hope for similar human heart procedures for previously incurable diseases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Institute For Blood Transfusion
Modern battleships’ electric motors rival million-strong energy
The article notes that the electric propulsion systems of contemporary battleships carry the power equivalent to that of a million men. This comparison emphasizes the immense scale of naval propulsion and its technological advancement.
Literary Tribute to Lady Nicotine in English Letters
The piece surveys tobacco’s influence in England from early introduction by Hawkins Lane Drake Raleigh to its role in modern literature. It cites King James II’s early objections, Sir James Barrie’s literary warmth, Rudyard Kipling’s cigar poems, and a Mann novel line about cigars as safe escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hawkins
Ralph Lane
Virginia
Francis Drake
Walter Raleigh
England
James II
Europe
James Barrie
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Mann
Egypt's sole paper mill in Alexandria meets local cigarette box demand
Egypt relies on its single Alexandria paper mill that uses locally sourced wastepaper and rags to produce cardboard for cigarette boxes. In 1931 only forty six tons of pulp were imported, while a project studies local vegetation as pulp source and notes better paper grades may need imported woodpulp amid ongoing industrialization in South China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Alexandria
Puzzle For Pawnbroker What will happen to a wedding dress
A wedding dress in pawn for 40 years prompts debate among London pawnbrokers. Interest was paid regularly until recently but tracing the owner failed. The dress moved from the original shop to another, with continued payments, now held by Robertson's Ltd. The original borrower never returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Robertson's Ltd
No Use For It Lady of the House Dialogue
A quip exchanges between a disparaging house mistress and a tramp. The tramp reframes the question about work to ask what practical use moss would have for a man in his condition. The exchange showcases social tension and a wry edge in dialogue.
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the World Wheat Situation
Sivas
Tatas
Henry Ranch
Muriel Lake
Alta
Milburn
Miers Co
B.C. Forester
Anada
Lady Nicotine
Maggie
South China
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mamilton
Ontario
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