Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will grow up into fat hogs regardless of Government decrees, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has been hard put to devise a means of reducing the swine surplus comparable to the plow-under of cotton. Last week A. A. A. accepted in principle a price-upping plan from the National Corn-Hog Producers Committee of 25 which had been grappling with the problem in ten States for a month. The scheme's whole purpose was to get 500,000,000 Ib. of live pork out of the way by Jan. i, four times that amount next year, by rushing...
...grain crops. For at least two months they have been anticipating a short wheat crop, expected the new wheat crop estimate to be even smaller than a month ago. Instead the estimate was a trifle larger and wheat prices promptly sank. Equally unanticipated were the estimates that corn and oats crops would be considerably smaller than anticipated, a corn crop next to the smallest of any since 1901. Few grain traders could recall any year when wheat, corn and oats crops had all been so short. Estimates (in millions of bushels...
...Corn...
...head of cattle in Texas together. Delivery is to begin next week and Ronald is to be at the loading points to check in the cattle. We have a profit of $6 or $7 a head on those cattle. We have sold them to feeders in the corn belt." Ronald was released on $25,000 bond, but the State bank commissioner ordered the three Finney banks closed. Stanch old Warren Finney promptly marched to the State House, saw Governor Landon, declared: "I am not going to let that [Emporia] bank be closed. I have run it for 20 years...
...Trade the energy building grains, limited not only to 4? and 5? daily fluctuations, but also forbidden (by a rule good until Aug. 15) to fall below their July 31 closing levels, floundered ineffectually. September wheat meandered between a top of $1.02 and the stated minimum, 92⅛?. September corn wandered between 57? and its stated minimum, 49⅜?. September pig bellies swelled up occasionally to $7 but flopped back on their minimum, $6.50. From similar listlessness, begotten partly by regulation, Manhattan's Stock Exchange was saved by outside stimulants. Following pricking of the speculative bubble three weeks...