Word: crops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alberta's Social Credit Premier William C. ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, the profitless acres of the neighboring Province of Saskatchewan have long seemed a fertile field for the extension of his political and economic theories. For nine years, Saskatchewan's staple crop-wheat -has either brought non-profit prices or has been burned out by successive droughts. With more than half the Province's 930,893 inhabitants on relief, conditions are fairly favorable for ambitious politicians with any kind of palliatives...
...unusual is the conferring of honorary degrees on Government bigwigs. Last week's crop included Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy (St. John's University, Brooklyn), New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman (Syracuse), Wisconsin's U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. (University of Wisconsin), Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Temple). But this year's commencements produced a remarkable political echo. Honorary degrees went to no fewer than three of President Roosevelt's opponents in last year's battle over the Supreme Court-Michigan's Senator Arthur...
...tackle the worst crop problem since...
...annual yield topped a billion bushels. Last week's estimates, however, placed the 1938 yield between 1,020,623,000 and 1,045,623,000 bu., on top of a 200,000,000-bu. carryover. Annual U. S. consumption is about half this stupendous total. With light crops in England, Italy and North Africa, there is a slim chance the U. S. may export a sizable share of its surplus. Hope on this score plus rumors of black rust last week jumped prices on the Chicago wheat exchange 4½? a bu. day after the report was issued...
...cotton loans made in 1934, and with 1,670,000 bales left on its hands it has a further paper loss of $46,250,000. Now Commodity Credit apparently must lend more heavily than ever if it hopes to peg the 1938 price against a 13,000,000-bale crop...