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...good wheat, and another bumper crop. Nature had been kind, but she had first tried men's nerves. There had been winter drought, even several dire days of dust storms. Then soaking rains and an abnormally warm March had sprouted the green shoots in a hurry (TIME, April 22). Then there was another dry spell and again the blessed rains, just in time...
Rise in Wheat. The rise in wheat was equally spectacular. Cash wheat in Chicago, at $2.18¼ a bu., up from $1.97, was the highest since 1920. Even with the bumper crops expected this year, most grain traders think that wheat will stay up there because of the world demand. Moreover, farmers were having a tough time getting their grain to market. The shortage of railroad cars had forced many of them to pile it up in the open fields alongside the tracks (see cut). At week's end, drenching rains had spoiled half the grain stored in some...
Catholic Harvest. U.S. Catholicism, says Dr. Morrison, is working hard, fast and efficiently to reap the bumper harvest of souls wandering between decadent Protestantism and sterile secularism. "[The Catholic Church] is now developing and putting forward preachers who address the American public with winsome and persuasive arguments in exposition of Catholic doctrine and tradition. . . . This is a relatively new feature in American Catholicism. . . . Its evangelistic program has been exceedingly cautious. But now it feels no need of caution...
...European children who are so hungry!" Colombians, crimped by their ever-present transport problem, were forced to fly beef to their upland capital. At first they offered Hoover only coffee; later they considered relinquishing 8,000 tons of wheat promised by Canada. Ecuador, usually short on wheat, had a bumper rice crop; for 650,000 bags, which sell within Ecuador for $7 apiece wholesale, Hoover...
...Louise and Jasper in the Rockies, closed during part of the war, would reopen June 15. They have already been booked solid. A select few tourists would confine themselves to the "million dollar" salmon fishing clubs along New Brunswick's Restigouche and Metapedia Rivers. Vancouver was assured a bumper crop of visitors for its July Diamond Jubilee to be highlighted by an $80,000 historical pageant...