Word: bu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into butter. This tax, which processors were expected to pass on to consumers, must "equal the difference between the current average farm price for the commodity and [its] fair exchange value"- that is, pre-War parity. Thus the wheat processing tax last month would have been around 56? per bu., the cotton 7? per Ib., the beef 2¢ per Ib. Such taxpayers were made eligible to borrow the necessary funds from R. F. C. Processors of farm products for export were to get tax refunds. If the public tried to dodge the tax on cotton, for example, by turning...
Iowa State College estimates that by tincturing the nation's gasoline with 10% of alcohol made from surplus crops, an annual outlet would be provided for 600,000,000 bu. of corn. Henry Agard Wallace of Iowa, next Secretary of Agriculture (see p. 12) is credited with having first commended to President-elect Roosevelt legislation requiring a gasoline-alcohol mixture. James Maurice Doran, Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, has prepared a report on the project for Mr. Roosevelt...
Spluttered astonished Minister Chéron, "Bu...