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...Congress met last week, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, his face stamped with anxiety, visited the White House. To President Hoover he stated his problem: Kansas granaries bulged with 40,000,000 bushels of 1928 surplus wheat held for export. It hung over the incoming crop, an imminent incubus. It could not be moved to seaboard with a transportation loss to the producers of 8? per bushel-a freight rate advantage enjoyed by Canada and Argentina on the wheat for the world market. Said Senator Capper: "This wheat must be moved in the next three months, as July wheat will...
...their few remaining cattle to the Indians; decided that they too would change from cattle to farming, but on a scale that would bring back the departed glory of the Miller house. Next spring they put in 5,000 acres of wheat, harvested a record crop of 70,000 bushels, sold at $1.20 a bushel in Chicago. The Cattle Millers were the Farmer Millers then...
...their new Board of Trade Building at Jackson Boulevard and La Salle Street. Antiquated, this building was last week abandoned, to be replaced by a $20,000,000 building on the same site. Centre of grain trading for 44 years, the old building has seen trading in eleven billion bushels of "cash" grain, amounting to 6,000,000 full freight cars. Here P. D. Armour, Joseph Leiter, James A. Patten and many another operator became famous. Here Arthur Cutten, prominent in Wall Street's late bull market, took the title of Corn King from J. Ogden Armour. Here...
...president of the Chicago Board of Trade. Later he was one of A. S. White's pit traders. Then he entered the grain market for himself, and during the World War is said to have made more money than any other individual operator. He once accumulated four million bushels of corn, bought at 80? a bushel or less; held them until they sold at from $1.11 to $1.14½; realized a profit of a million dollars. It was in railroad stocks, however, that he made his first market profits. Back in 1904 he bought some 1,500 shares...
...example of President Coolidge, whose skill in a fishing way has kept the exploits of the U. S. Marines in Nicagagna almost entirely off the front pages, it is inconceivable that the campaign managers will let Mr. Hoover's exploits with the rod and reel remain hidden under a bushel...