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...stretched into a human interest story. When she retired she announced that she was going to farm and farm she did. She bought 1,600 wheat acres in Colby, Kans., made them pay until last summer when the crops were blown out of the ground. The 3,000 bushels left she was shrewd enough to save for seed, got $1 per bushel...
...asked a colleague. "Do?" retorted Sumner. "Learn something else and teach it. I've had to do that, twice in my life." Or again, mordantly, to the class, "In the colonies, during inflation, you might see creditors fleeing madly from debtors who were chasing them to pay them with bushel-basket fuels of dirty paper."... Most famous of all, perhaps, is his address, immediately consequent upon the taking of the Philippines. The lecture was entitled, "The Conquest of the United States by Spain...
...paeans of relief and sold stocks and commodities. Because they felt so good and sold so freely prices slumped, threatened to break through the low levels established in last July's reaction. So abruptly did prices fall, particularly wheat prices which broke the limit of fluctuation (5? a bushel), that Governor William Langer of North Dakota declared an unprecedented embargo upon all shipments of North Dakota hard wheat, tying up some 50,000,000 bushels. Some of the hedgers feared that their joy might be the cause of the very disaster they dreaded. They well knew that Mr. Roosevelt...
...restrictions and subsidies for their farmers. Suddenly came the miracle. An international conference actually agreed to do something, accomplished something, was ready to sign something, all within five days. Delegates of the four exporting countries agreed to limit their combined wheat exports for 1933-34 to 560,000,000 bushels, in the following year to cut exports 15% below the average exportable production of 1931-33. The importing nations agreed to reduce their wheat tariffs and quotas as soon as the international price of wheat reaches 63.08 gold cents a bushel (89?Roosevelt) and stays there for four months. They...
...Pacific Northwest, and of raising the wheat processing tax to pay for the subsidy. The Secretary of Agriculture has power to fix processing taxes at an amount equal to the difference between current prices and the average price (88?) for 1909-14. The present tax of 30? a bushel represented that difference on June 15. For several weeks wheat prices have been about 88? but the tax continues. But the processing tax can be increased only if wheat prices fall below the June 15 level. The threat of subsidized exports may have been partly intended to support the market...