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Their plan as presented to the President called for the revival of the United States Grain Corporation to undertake the orderly marketing and production of grain. They asked for lower railroad freight rates on grain and flour and for an extra session of Congress, called at least a fortnight in advance of the regular session (which starts Dec. 3), to pass appropriate legislation. They did not ask a fixed price for wheat or a higher tariff on that product...
Exports of wheat and flour from the 1922 crop have exceeded 230,000,000 bushels, which is far more than can be spared from the shorter crop of 1923. It is barely possible that instead of the price being held so low because of an overproduction of wheat the situation is caused by intelligent and organized buying on the part of our foreign customers...
Died. Mrs. Nancy Green, 89. " Aunt Jemima," whose name decorates boxes of the pancake flour put up by the Aunt Jemima Mills Co. of St. Joseph, Mo., in Chicago, in an automobile accident. She first publicly demonstrated her skill with a pancake turner at the Chicago World's Fair...
...even impossible to take off my fur coat in the presence of ladies, because I, for lack of good trousers, may shock the lady or disgrace myself. In case of such an occurrence, I, Suslov, will not consider myself responsible. Secondly, I have not a pound of flour or a piece of bread, so that I must report to duty hungry. In view of the above-mentioned urgent necessities, I beg you to grant me a leave of absence for one month, to secure these necessities...
France has in prospect a record crop, and M. Chéron, her Minister of Agriculture, has predicted that imports of wheat will not be necessary this year at all, if wheat flour is mixed with that of other cereals. The French yearly ration of wheat is estimated at 85,000,000 quintals; production in Continental France is estimated at 79,000,000 quintals, with 20,000,000 more from the French North African harvest...