Word: glut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five-year low ($6.02½ per cwt.) will not feel the 1939 crop until this fall when pigs farrowed this spring begin to go to slaughter. Chief beneficiaries of the booming pig population: the corn farmers, 40% of whose product will go to fatten hogs for a glutted pork market. But their returns are not likely to be handsome. For 1939 nature has been bountiful beyond New Deal rules and a large crop of 2,518,000,000 bushels is forecast. Thus, while pigs in increasing numbers eat corn, corn (currently selling in Chicago at slightly more than...
...from the city welfare department. She then did something that Reliefers had never done before. She bought a booklet of orange and blue stamps issued by the U. S. Government, thus became the first feminine guinea pig in an experiment designed by the Department of Agriculture to relieve the glut of surplus farm produce (TIME, March...
...they can soon turn the trick. Such a plant should be in great demand among smart cotton planters because: 1) instead of having to be ginned, it could be cheaply threshed and harvested like any small grain; 2) there would be no cotton fibre to swell the two-year glut already on hand...
Although Germany now needs lard desperately and the U. S. has a glut, it was by no means likely that a deal could be arranged. Last week several packers announced that they would sell their lard for cash only...
...position. Last week, reviewing statements from 100 leading corporations (all having inventories of $1,000,000 or more), Manhattan's National City Bank found cause for optimism: their inventories were off an average of 10% from a year ago, 15% from the peak of the Depression II inventory glut in September 1937. Both in its evidence and its opinion. National City thus reflected the virtual consensus among businessmen that the inventory problem, so severe year ago, is now well in hand...