Word: cwt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pork on the hoof hit a 22-year high of $15.30 cwt. last week despite retail price-fixing. At $15.30, economists figured that scientific feeding of 85? corn in the trough brought over $2.50 a bu. gross when resold...
...farmers this huge pig crop is a bonanza, for prices are up too. In Chicago last week hogs hit $14.70 per cwt., highest in 25 years...
...Defense Supplies Corp. was all set to sign up with Cuba for the largest sugar order ever: $200,000,000 worth, 3,450,000 tons. This is 80% of Cuba's total 1942 crop. > OPA raised its ceilings on raw and refined sugar about 7% (24? per cwt. for raw, 20? for refined). While the chief reason for the raw-sugar rise was to bring all prices into line with the DSC-negotiated price to Cuba, it should also encourage increased production, both off-shore and domestic. > This week refiners and large industrial consumers met in Washington to discuss...
Dairymen wanted more money for their milk. This month, through the Federal-State Milk Marketing Agency which controls producer prices in the milkshed, Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard upped the price of fluid milk* to $2.65 per cwt. (47 quarts). From August on, the price was to be $2.88. But farmers demanded an average price of $3 per cwt. for all milk, instead of the $2.15 they now get. And that, said Marketing Administrator Nikitas John Cladakis, would drive the price of fluid milk to $4.81 per cwt...
...reparations, onetime near-nominee for President of the U.S. Descendant of a long line of Mohawk Valley farmers, Owen D. (for nothing) Young is one of the biggest dairymen in New York State. His 2,000-acre farm at Van Hornesville, near Utica, produces some 33 cwt. of milk a day-which would be worth about $71 at the present average price...