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March 15, 1942

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STOCKS MARK TIME IN NARROW TRADING; Week Ends With Averages Off -- Bonds Mixed -- Wheat Down; Cotton Irregular

By Unknown Author

Trading was virtually at a standstill yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange, but values were firm slightly above the low marks reached in the precipitous drop in the early days of last week. The volume of trading was 174,640 shares, almost 100,000 less than the preceding Saturday's turnover of 271,980 shares and the second dullest two-hour session of the year.

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Ample Supplies of Wheat Seen For the United Nations This Year; United States, Canada and Australia Have Exportable Surpluses and Shipments Could Be Made by Argentina COMPLETE SUPPLIES OF WHEAT ARE SEEN

By J.h. Carmical

Wheat supplies for the United Nations in the war are ample, provided adequate transportation facilities are available. With a prospective carryover of 625,000,000 bushels on July 1 next, and a new crop expected to be at least 125,000,000 bushels in excess of home requirements for the following twelve months, the United States alone is in a position to supply most of the deficiency of the other United Nations.

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Notable Deaths

Rachel Field

1942Rachel Field, American author and poet (born 1894)[โ€ ]

Rachel Lyman Field was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. She is best known for her work Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. Field also won a National Book Award, a Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list.