Word: bu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because his wife, the former Didi H. Muus, is Norwegian, Mr. Cohu built for her at Southampton a summer home like a Norwegian mountain house. A Norwegian architect designed it, Norwegian craftsmen were imported to make the wood carvings. Mrs. Cohu named the house Gissa Bu. Her husband, who has never been to Norway, says he does not know what Gissa Bu means...
...With President Hoover's approval 14 carloads of Government-owned wheat rumbled out of Omaha for South Dakota -first batch of 5,000,000 bu. to be distributed there free to the needy by the Red Cross. The railroads handled the consignment gratis. Drought and grasshoppers necessitated this Federal relief...
...release, she left her appeal in manuscript. Other visitors last week who did see the President: Jay Herod, 10, San Francisco violin prodigy, Alayne Brown, 15, St. Louis sharpshooter. ¶ President Hoover signed a bill which will cause the distribution to the needy of 4,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat through the Red Cross. The Red Cross will have the grain milled and should it all be used for human consumption it would make 2,480,000,000 loaves of bread. ¶The President signed a resolution making $10,000,000 available for the formation of agricultural credit...
...Adopted (344-10-2) a joint resolution giving 40,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat through the Red Cross to the needy, sent it to the President...
...Stock Exchange values jumped $3,000,000,000 in five trading hours. The next market day they surged up another $4,000,000,000 in two hours. The rise was the sharpest and strongest in months. Simultaneously cotton moved up $1 per bale. Wheat spurted 1¢ and 2¢ per bu. Commodities bulged hopefully. The cause: A bill (House of Representatives No. 9203) "to improve the facilities of the Federal Reserve System for the service of commerce, industry and agriculture, to provide means for meeting the needs of member banks in exceptional circumstances and for other purposes...