Lindbergh Urges World Air Code
IMPOSSIBLE TO DEVOTE too much attention to overcoming obstacles to international flying!”
So speaks Lindbergh, “aviation counsel to the world,” of what is most needed for development of air travel and commerce in the shrinking distances around our globe.
His plea for securing a uniform standard of regulations for international flyers by all [...]

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Hoover Helps the Home-Builder
TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE IT EASIER for the average man or woman to obtain a home”—that, in the phrase of the New York World, is the object of the White House Conference on home-building and home ownership recently called by President Hoover.
Pointing out that this is the twenty-fourth commission appointed [...]

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Why Cheap Silver Cheapens Wheat
TWO price phenomena that attract world-wide attention are the very low price of wheat and the world-wide decline in the value of silver.
This is a great deal more than a coincidence, one statistical observer is inclined to think.
The Cambridge Associates of Boston have prepared a chart, here reproduced, which shows that [...]

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“Cash-and-Carry” Spreading
THE BETTER TO MEET the competition of the chain stores, the Independent Grocers’ Alliance—the organization’s name is self-explanatory—is advising its members to adopt the cash-and-carry and self-service systems. The New York World tells us that some two thousand of the members of the Alliance have already complied with the request, and most of the [...]

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The Frequency of Droughts
NO PART of the United States or Canada is entirely exempt from drought, and no agricultural season passes in which it does not afflict some parts of these countries. There has never, however, according to Charles Fitzhugh Talman, been a drought over the whole or the greater part of temperate North America [...]

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