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COOLIDGE FOR FIFTY MILLION BUSHEL WHEAT CREDIT FOR GERMANY. COOLIDGE WARMLY FAVORS AMERICAN WHEAT FOR STARVING GERMANY. Such were the headlines appearing in the German press to put heart into suffering Teutons. In Berlin, U. S. magnanimity was the sole topic of a single day. The announcements were premature, being possible but not yet probable. In any case relief measures, if undertaken, will be upon a sound economic basis...
...Author) arrived in a Greenwich Village theatre, off the beaten Broadway track. It tells of a wayward woman, her attempt to return to her child and husband, her failure. Margaret Wycherly is the redeeming feature. But even the fire of her intelligent performance shines but dimly under the bushel of interminable talk...
...Every bushel of wheat produced in the U. S. during 1922 was needed in the world and readily purchased. We have no burdensome surplus in the U. S. at the present time...
...Purchase by the Government of wheat at $1.75 a bushel, or similar price, in order to sustain the market. This is advocated by some " radicals" of the wheat belt, but opposed by Secretary Wallace because it would tend to increase wheat production, thereby augmenting the existing evil of oversupply. Eventually the Government would have to dump the wheat back on the market or into...
...when the politician who promised the farmers that their wheat would sell at $1.00 a bushel could surely elicit their applause and probably their votes. Today, after the huge war prices for grain, no little consternation was caused when wheat descended on the Chicago market under $1.00 a bushel for the first time since the outbreak of the War. Since the price of wheat will prove a major factor in electing our next President, politicians as well as farmers and speculators are now studying the wheat situation...