Word: bu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the other price-upping provisions of the law. His first step called for a series of Washington conferences with the producers and processors of each basic commodity to shape up an operating program on marketing agreements. If most millers consent to buy wheat from growers at $1 per bu., Secretary Wallace can suspend the anti-trust law to sanction such a bargain. If a minority group of millers refuse to join the agreement and try to beat wheat down to 80?, Secretary Wallace can, under the law. coerce them into line by suspending their Federal licenses as processors...
...nothing so much as a child playing with dynamite. He is trying to make prices go up. He may succeed. The trouble is that in doing so he may destroy the country and himself as well. . . . How would the farmer benefit if wheat sold for $10 per bu. if the $10 wouldn't buy a pair of overalls or a gallon of gasoline...
...Roosevelt might have an acute food shortage on his hands. On the other hand an ideal combination of sun & rain can produce such bumper crops as to wipe out all trace of acreage cuts and send prices slumping to even lower levels. One year an acre will produce 12 bu. of wheat, the next 24 bu. Such is the gamble Secretary Wallace must take...
...consumed (1914-1916 average) about: 42,000,000 Ib. of hops; 60,000,000 bu. of barley; 18,000,000 bu. of corn. C. It had invested (1914) about 42,000,000 in plant and equipment...
...hops* (80% of the 1932 crop), 30,000,000 bu. of barley† (10% of the 1932 crop) and 10,000 bu. of corn (about ⅓% of the 1932 crop). But home brew, illegal brew, and ½% beer is already using part of these amounts. About 6,000,000 Ib. of hops were used for other than brewing in pre-Prohibition days. Assuming that this amount still holds, then the beer business may be said to be already operating at about 45% of its pre-Prohibition capacity. If it is going to operate at 50% the demand for raw materials...