Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Agriculture is the preoccupation of practically all state universities, but not of West Virginia, although its corn, hay, tobacco, potatoes and fruits are worth $100,000,000 each year. Its hillbilly farmers are too difficult to reach with farming information...
...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 of Soo Line stock...
Argentina will not be officially represented at the Conference in Washington. The new Argentine President and "boss politician" intimated recently (TIME, Oct. 22) that he was vexed by reports that President Calvin Coolidge had made up his mind to raise the tariff on corn and flaxseed. Vexed anew, last week, was President Irigoyen when the Independent El Diario of Buenos Aires issued a presumptuous statement that it expects the government to refuse to sign the Kellogg Peace Pact on the grounds that Argentina is "a traditionally peaceful country...
Since Argentines fear that the U. S. tariff on corn and flaxseed is about to be raised, with the inevitable effect of reducing Argentine exports of those staples, it is understood that President Irigoyen intends to withhold Argentine ratification of the Kellogg Peace Pact, in hopes of convincing the Coolidge Administration that the tariff on corn and flaxseed really should not be raised...
...giving its shareholders the equivalent of a 700% stock dividend. Besides, it is selling them $5,000,000 stock in its two main subsidiaries?E. W. Gillett Ltd., Canadian maker and distributor of baking powder and allied products, and American Maize Products Co., maker and distributor of corn starch and corn byproducts...