Business & Finance: Farmers' Billions

Last week statistical experts at the American Institute of Food Distribution sat down with their slide rules to answer a question which has troubled businessmen all summer: How much will drought reduce the income of U. S. farmers? As if unable to believe what it had discovered, the Institute tucked its findings into the inside pages of an obscure food pamphlet. Hardly had it been published before the Wall Street Journal and Dun & Bradstreet hastened to confirm the Institute's opinions, and huge, conservative Standard Statistics Co....

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