Word: grained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparison. Because of the drought and government "planning" any surplus was expected to be negligible. Havoc wrought by the recent dust storm, coupled with continued government reduction, has now made any real surplus impossible and a shortage probable. High- or wheat prices, all ready reflected in the Chicago grain markets, may well mean higher-priced broad, the disastrous social and political consequences of which may easily can imagined...
...gasoline brought the number of commodities bought & sold on U. S. Exchanges to 33. The others: wheat, corn, rye. oats, sugar, coffee, cotton, silk, rubber, hides, butter, eggs, copper, zinc, tin, lead, rice, barley, lard, ribs, provisions, potatoes, cotton seed, flour, hay, flaxseed, millseeds, cocoa, wool, tops, grain sorghums, sugar bags...
...sufficiently "high," the obvious implication being that more currency tinkering is being considered. Yet a few days ago Richberg assured a Boston audience "that there will be no inflation while Franklin D. Roosevelt is President." At the time the less gullible took this statement with a grain of salt, realizing that the Treasury wanted to float an extensive new bond issue. They further wondered if he knew what he was talking about when he said "When you talk about inflation, I suppose you mean just that--inflation...
...this insinuation seems to call for a grain of salt, let the public press be examined. Let the political analyst point out how unerringly Hearst, Long, and Coughlin are found on the same side of the fence. It has been said that elections are brought about in the hotel rooms of convention delegates. There are some shrewd men who believe in beginning long before...
...every Moscovite knows the "success" of Comrade Stalin in dragooning peasants on to collective farms where they are at the mercy of the Soviet Power has vastly increased the ease of forced grain collections. That "ample stocks for seed and food are in the hands of the authorities" neither the Archbishop of Canterbury nor anyone else denies. It is rather because they are in the State's hands that some 6,000,000 peasants starved in 1932-33, the State withholding tell-tale statistics until 1934 when they were no longer news...