Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in the corn belt, farmers were getting their fields in tilth for corn. In the wheat belt, spring wheat was being seeded -two weeks late because of cold. In the northern half of the cotton belt, cottonseed was going into the ground. In Texas, cotton plants were coming up. On the prairies-save where dust and drought had ruined it-winter wheat was growing green and waving in the breeze. In farmsteads everywhere newly farrowed piglets were lying like pink sausages at the teats of deflated sows. And in Washington, now that May was there, a crop...
...Distributed benefit payments for crop reduction of $225,000,000 to cotton farmers, $162,000,000 to wheat farmers, $31,000,000 to tobacco growers, $253,500,000 to corn-hog raisers, $6,000,000 to sugar growers. Total...
...full hour Huey Long gave them his oratorical works, including his best epithets: "The Lord Destroyer, Lord Corn Wallace' "Prince Franklin, Knight of the Nourmahal," "Ickes, the Chinch Bug of Chicago...
Every broker knew what the "peculiar circumstances" were: with 4,000,000 bu. of wheat, rye, corn and oats, Rosenbaum Grain Corp. had gone to the wall the previous afternoon. The scarcity of wheat caused by Drought had eaten into Manny Rosenbaum's warehouse business. Income from storing other people's wheat (1½? a month per bu.) had sunk out of sight; in its place was a heavy drain on cash for upkeep and taxes. And loans from banks were large. Rosenbaum Grain Corp. filed petitions in Delaware's and Chicago's Federal Courts...
...about 20 years ago, Trader Rosenbaum began an ambitious program of expansion, considered himself something of an Insull in the grain business. Besides loading himself up with grain elevators, he opened a string of 15 branch offices. Lately he was reported slapping quantities of cash into Polish rye, Argentine corn and oats. Sincerely disliked by many a grain broker for his personality and methods, Manny Rosenbaum was a central figure in the Armour grain scandal of 1925. and the failure of Dean, Onativia & Co., a brokerage house which he helped organize. Last week most of Manny Rosenbaum's negotiations...