Word: barley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge, Mass, to address the Harvard Tercentenary Conference on Arts & Sciences which got under way last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 14), continucd last week. At Cambridge, without going into much detail as to method, the German declared that he is getting a digestible sugar, equal in food value to barley, from sawdust, which is mostly a waste product or burned as an inferior fuel in lumber mills. Of the sawdust 60% to 65% becomes sugar, 5% acetic acid, 30% lignin which again can be used to make charcoal or wallboard. The sugar can be converted into protein by treatment with yeast...
Alarmed by the corn flurry, the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House last week raised trading firms' margins from 3? to 4?; a bu., equalling the margins for wheat, oats and barley, and the Board of Trade required non-members to put up double the Clearing House margin requirements...
...damage could still be averted by a few good rains, but the possibilities of serious crop failure boosted corn prices from about 60? per bu. in May to last week's high of 85?. Oats were up from a low this year of 25? per bu. to 40? barley from 36? to 65? rye from 50? to 76?. On the Chicago Board of Trade, grains frequently jumped the full day's limit long before the close of trading, and speculation became so rampant that conservative commission houses forehandedly raised their margin requirements...
...green pastures,' the Department of Agriculture wrote: "By borrowing where they could, using Government loans and seeds so far as available and keeping their tractors chugging far beyond the usual hours of labor [farmers in the drought area] and their families have planted acreages of spring wheat, oats, barley and flax that seemed impossible three months...
July 1 estimate 1934 (in bu.) Production Wheat 731,045,000 496,929,000 Corn 2,044,601,000 1,377,126,000 Oats 1,266,243,000 528,815,000 Barley 316,850,000 118,348,000 Rye 53,100,000 16,040,000 Apples 1 70,000,000 119,855,000 Tobacco...