Chewing Children. Small London tots today buy for 2½ pence (5¢) fat, quarter-pound bags of toothsome, squashy "fruit drops" made in Russia. British competitors bemoaned last week that they cannot sell similar bagsful for less than 5 pence 10¢).
President & Pit. In Washington anxious Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde told President Herbert Hoover that trade representatives of the Soviet Government have sold short "at least 5,000,000 bushels" of grain (and possibly 7,500,000 bu.) in Chicago's pit, hope to depress prices further, sow discontent among U. S. farmers (see p. 18).
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