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...accordance with the "flexible" provision of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law, the President raised the duty on wheat from 30c to 42c a bushel and on wheat flour from...
...help for starving Germany, but Germany is literally crammed with food. Half of last year's harvest is still untouched. People in the towns are starving because the farmer and the landlord are keeping back foodstuffs. If I were Mr. Hoover I would not send a single bushel of grain until the stocks now in Germany were consumed...
...most profitable crop to farmers was corn, which at the high price of 72.7? a bushel was worth $2,222,013,000, as against the 65.8? crop of 1922, worth $1,919,775,000. Wheat proved the most unprofitable crop: at the price of 104.7? on Dec. 1, 1923, the current winter wheat crop was worth about $543,825,000, and at 92.3¢ for spring wheat that part of the crop was valued at $181,676,000- both were worth $725,501,000-which is $147,911,000 less than for 1922, and even $29,333,000 less than...
...create a Government corporation capitalized at $300,000,000 to stabilize Northern Spring wheat at a minimum price of $1.50 a bushel...
Fabulous tales are told concerning the revolutionary currency in this country--how it was carried about in bushel baskets and used for wall paper. But the Germans have selfishly tarnished the gold of that aura. Only a few days ago someone in Berlin offered an American dollar in a restaurant for a square meal and was presented with three, not only square but pressed down and running over. A Swiss firm, deeming the mark cheaper than waste paper, attempted to import a few billion for conversion into pulp. But the Swiss government objected to the importation of foreign currency...