Word: food
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Serrano had won a great victory. But with the politically minded Army excluded from power, food scarce, millions of unreconstructed Republicans, and recovery lagging, observers last week wondered how long his minority of a minority could force individualist Spain into a strait-jacket rule...
...farmers outside the South were far from unemployed. Food prices rose even higher than the prices of industrial goods. As more and more wheat lands went out of production in Europe, wheat reached a dizzy $2.33 a bushel, and U. S. farmers borrowed heavily to increase their acreage; the total farm mortgage debt for the U. S. increased from $3,320,470,000 in 1910 to $7,857,700,000 in 1920. And during this same War decade the average value of farm land in the U. S. rose from $39.60 an acre...
...smuggling flotilla came in handy as early as October of 1914, when he made a killing by cornering all available pigs on the coast of Spain and selling them to the Entente powers for a fantastic profit. Shortly his smuggling fleet had become the Compania Transmediterranea. This company supplied food to the Entente nations and to German submarines with cool impartiality. By 1916 March had cornered the Spanish oil and petrol business. He sold shoes to the French army, traded coal and munitions to both sides, delivered American wheat in his ships, and built up a spy service that...
...goods-whether food or cannon-which are exported to belligerents. Experience of the last great war shows that they might as well be burned or dumped at sea, for little if any real wealth is ever received in payment for them. They are paid for only with promises to pay or with gold, which is virtually as useless, so that war-born prosperity remains an illusion. Even after the war, if debtors try to pay by shipping goods, creditors commonly lock them out by tariffs...
Last Sunday the half-hour Round Table discussion was opened and closed with an apology by the University's vice president Frederic Campbell Woodward (a Hoover aide with the U. S. Food Administration in 1917): "That statement should never have been made. We have ample assurance that it is absolutely untrue. We not only wish to state our regret but our full confidence that Mr. Hoover's public life stands out for high standards of probity, political honesty and abhorrence of political corruption...