Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without change as a result of a conference between the two houses. The sheer physical bulk of the farm bill with amendments was more than matched by the dictatorial powers it gave the President over Agriculture and Finance. He could fix and collect a processing tax on wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, dairy products, tobacco, rice, sugar beets and cane with which to pay producers of these commodities...
...Butter, wheat, barley, oats, corn, poultry, raw cotton, petroleum, wood and timber hewn, sawn, planed or dressed; pit props, pit wood, staves and sleepers; plywood, builders' woodwork including window frames, doors and parts thereof...
...duty paid) to 3 3/10? a pound compared to less than 2¾? in February. If his company can make an extra ½? a pound on its annual output of about one billion pounds it will make an extra $5,000,000 profit.* Rubber, sugar, silk, copper, silver, wheat, corn, coffee, meat, hides, wool, cotton, cocoa-each one in a long, long list of commodities last week brought just such startling dreams of profits to manufacturers, traders, producers, to states and to countries in all quarters of the globe...
...depressions, the beginning of inflations are marked by rising commodity prices. Many a depressed trader began to take heart last week. It was fine that corn was strong because higher corn prices mean bigger farm income for more farmers than do higher wheat prices...
Stocks took their cue from commodities, mounted moderately led by such companies as American Sugar (in hope of a sugar recovery), Homestake Mine (bigger profits in gold if the dollar is devalued), Corn Products (in hope of corn recovery...