Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crucial business development during early summer is the prospective value of American crops. The July forecast issued by the Department of Agriculture covering the wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and other standard crops is encouraging. Despite the late winter, large crops are anticipated. The prospective value of the twelve principal American agricultural products, on the basis of farm prices on July 1, 1923, will be $7,829,912,800, as compared with $6,768,208,000 for the same crops in 1922. This gain of over a billion dollars in value this year is, however, conditioned by coming weather conditions...
...during the last year, is estimated at $1,493,400,-000?about a half-billion dollars better than the value of the 1922 crop. An even greater gain was registered by corn at $2,488,605,000 compared with $1,798,202,000 last year. Increased value was forecast for the current crop of corn, oats, barley, flaxseed, cotton; but wheat, rye, white and sweet potatoes, hay, peaches, apples showed a decrease. The 1923 wheat crop is estimated at $780,771,000 compared with $884,412,000?a loss of over $100,000,000. It is apparent that...
...latest forecast of the Department of Agriculture states the acreage in 1923 under wheat to be 58,253,000 acres, compared with 61,230,000 last year. The anticipated yield this year is 821,000,000, compared with 856,211,000 for 1922. The decline in wheat prices during 1921-23 has been due to many causes, chief among which are: greater production in Canada and elsewhere, underconsumption in Europe owing to the high price of wheat under the present exchange rates, greater effort by Europe to feed herself, and the endeavor by the American farmer to sell an output...
...forecast, the trouble between the Turks and the Greeks over indemnities was solved by compromise...
...Although the use of water power in industry must always remain auxiliary to the employment of steam energy, recent developments in hydro-electric construction forecast great changes in the economic life of the United States", declared Mr. Herbert Miller Hale '04 in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Hale, who is chief engineer of a corporation which controls and plans to develop about 50 power sites in New York and New England, has been for the last three years in charge of the construction on the upper Hudson River of a large dam which will supply power...