Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action in that quarter that U. S. relief plans may yet be nullified. The Canadian wheat surplus on April 1 was 246 million bushels which also had to be moved out before the new crop came in. The Port of Montreal was congested with surplus grain. Eleven vessels with large wheat cargoes cleared last week, starting the flow to Europe. To retain Canada's present 8 cent freight advantage to the world market, its railroad executives prepared to discuss rate reductions correspondingly below the new U. S. rates...
...separate uses, from the ethylene of the obstetrician to the embalming fluid of the undertaker, is one of the necessities of modern existence. Into each life some industrial alcohol must fall. Ethyl, Methyl, Amyl. There are three general kinds of alcohol-ethyl, methyl and amyl. Ethyl alcohol is grain alcohol, and may be used socially (as in cocktails) as well as industrially. Methyl alcohol is wood alcohol, made by distillation of the gases which escape from burning wood. Unlike ethyl, methyl is immediately poisonous, almost instantaneously fatal. Amyl alcohol is a by-product of ethyl, is an acrid, evil-smelling...
...rates for 60 days so as to place the Kansas farmer on a parity with Canada and Argentina. . . ." Leaving the President's office, issuing his statement to the press, posing for photographers, Senator Capper was not an impressive figure. Nevertheless his words started a visible commotion in the grain world. Next day, the mild vagueness of President Hoover's message to Congress on farm relief heightened the unrest. Wheat prices dropped 4? per bushel...
...from the U. S. and sells more to the U. S. than any other country. During 1928, Canada went into first place as best buyer of U. S. goods, passing the United Kingdom. The two together account for about one-third of all U. S. exports. Much of the grain exported to Canada is actually en route to the British Isles, however, which leaves Canada's leadership somewhat unstable. Exports to South America showed a general increase, Argentine buying almost 10% more U. S. merchandise in 1928 than in 1927. Increases both in Argentina and Brazil, also in Mexico...
...Denatured alcohol is made by adding to grain alcohol some substance which renders it unfit to drink. The denaturent is not always a poison (TIME, Nov. 26, Letters...