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...belt, from the panhandle of Texas to the border of Manitoba, the harvest was moving relentlessly northward. Last week the combines roared out of Nebraska and into the golden, knee-high fields of South Dakota. Although some areas were hurt by drought, the yield was generally good. But every bushel that came tumbling out of a combine's spout added to a critical farm problem. U.S. wheat bins are bursting with the greatest glut in history. When all this year's crop is in, the total supply is expected to be 1.7 billion bushels, more than 50% above...
...TIME hid its decimal point under a bushel...
...they got the last three dozen guests out by turning off the electric lights. Then they totted up the toll: 18 gallons of lobster Newburg, 450 hamburgers, eight turkeys, eight hams, a bushel of green salad, eight gallons of lavender-pink potato salad, six crocks of baked beans, eight gallons of sherbet, dozens of cases of bourbon, Scotch and gin, 120 bottles of champagne. Said Martha: "Everything came out even, except Clem Ryan." The evening had cost Millionaire Ryan something like...
...flurry of selling in the Chicago Board of Trade's grain pits last week, July wheat dropped about 4? to $1.97¾ a bu., lowest price in more than three years. At the start of this week it dropped another 10 cents a bushel. Chief reason: the Agriculture Department had raised its final estimate of the 1953 wheat crop to 1,132,500,000 bu., almost 100 million bu. higher than the estimate made a month earlier. This was more than enough to offset the week's more encouraging news, i.e., President Eisenhower's request that...
...farmer to build more storage capacity, so that he could have the grain on hand and ready to market if the price went up. Furthermore, the Government was ready to lend 80% of the cost of the new bins built by the farmer, and would pay him 13? a bushel for storing last years corn for another year...