Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second biggest crop in history. The rye harvest, which last year was the poorest in 40 years, will be so big this year that AAA has already made plans for a crop reduction program. Despite floods and a cold, wet spring in the Central States, the corn crop was running 50% better than last year. Whereas on April i the Govern-ment had estimated a winter wheat crop 435,499,000 bu., this figure by last week had been boosted to 458,000,000. For winter and spring wheat combined the Government predicted the biggest yield since...
July 1 estimate 1934 (in bu.) Production Wheat 731,045,000 496,929,000 Corn 2,044,601,000 1,377,126,000 Oats 1,266,243,000 528,815,000 Barley 316,850,000 118,348,000 Rye 53,100,000 16,040,000 Apples 1 70,000,000 119,855,000 Tobacco...
...started in 1924. The moment the news was known a dark storm of selling broke over the Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City markets, tumbling prices the limit of 5¢ in one day. In Liverpool, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Winnipeg, wheat also went down in confusion. Other commodities, notably corn and rye, slid off sharply. The news: After weathering years of economic crises, farm unrest, public criticism and political skulduggery, the Canadian Wheat Pool was about to unload its holdings on the world. If the job was executed recklessly, then world wheat was in for a grand smash...
Best known private forecasters are the five who published their reports last week. Though the public seldom hears of them, they have spent most of their adult lives guessing the size of each year's wheat, corn, rye and other crops. They...
McIntyre: Watch my fingers fly over the keyboard like a hen pecking up corn...