HUSBANDRY: Soviet Shorts

Last week Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde thought he had found a sinister explanation of declining U. S. wheat market prices. In a voice loud enough to be heard in the principal wheat-growing states (where low farm prices are likely to be a political issue in this year's campaign) he charged the Soviet Union with selling wheat short on the Chicago Board of Trade-to depress the price, to increase farm unrest. Secretary Hyde insisted that the Soviet short-sellers could never cover their future contracts...

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