Word: bu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Farm Board announced its own long-awaited plan to sell wheat abroad. This plan resembled the Equalization Fee plan in all respects save one: instead of the farmer's sharing the Government's loss, the Government would suffer alone. The Board had bought 140.- 000,000 bu. of the farmer's surplus wheat. Now it was going to export 35,000,000 bu. of "choice milling quality'' stored along the Atlantic and Pacific sea-boards. Its purpose was "to clear the ports of facilities for taking care of the 1931 crop...
This Farm Board announcement caused a 2½ per bu. break in the Chicago wheat market. Many a grain trader assumed that the Board was starting to unload its huge wheat holdings...
...Farm Board is now carrying approximately 130,000,000 bu. of wheat, 2,000,000 bales of cotton, all bought high above the current market in an attempt to sustain domestic prices. These operations have put the Board $100,000,000 into...
Senate Work Done. The Senate of the U. S. last week: ¶ Passed the War Department appropriation bill, amended to provide for distribution of 20,000,000 bu. of the Farm Board's wheat and $5,000,000 for Drought relief; sent it to conference...
...followers accused him of "going White House"-defiantly flung his party's challenge. He announced that he had no other choice than to tack his relief amendment onto all subsequent supply bills, unless Congress would immediately vote $50,500,000 worth of relief legislation, plus 20,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat to feed the hungry. Senator Robinson listed his requirements as follows...