Word: bu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...below the announced figure the Government will: 1) up the tariff on foreign wheat; 2) reduce the legal proportion of foreign flour in French bread; or 3) cancel wheat import licenses. So successful has been this system that last week French farmers rejoiced in a price of $1.72 per bu. of wheat, while at Chicago the price hovered around 80? in Canada 57? But so peculiar are French politics that last week the highly satisfactory price of wheat in France caused the fall of M. Theodore Steeg's "Cabinet of Concentration, Entente and Conciliation...
...Chamber of Deputies it was charged that Minister of Agriculture Victor Boret, who has upped the price of wheat in France 10?per bu. in the last month, did so with the prior knowledge of "speculators" (presumably friends...
...house away from light for 35 years and ten years ago was planted. It had been 41 years since harvested. Every grain seemed to grow. The next year I had quite a patch of measured ground and thrashed out the grain at the rate of 45 bu. per acre...
Winnipeg wheat, out in the world marked, slumped 26? to 28? per bu. under the Chicago level. Liverpool prices, normally 15? per bu. above the Chicago price, were 15? below, at a 1896 low record. No on, not even Critic Coolidge, could say that price-fixing of wheat was not working at least temporarily...
...artificially high U. S. price created a new threat-namely, nullification of the 42? wheat tariff. If the world price dropped another 10? to 15? per bu. money could be quickly made by shipping wheat to the U. S. and selling it to the Farm Board. Chairman Legge wrote to Senator Capper thus...