Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wall Street party and the other is that opposed to it." Senator Heflin lent his bovine eloquence, carrying on the Wall-Street-v.-Peepul theory until he had demanded the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine. The latter and a "crooked" subordinate had aided & abetted the cotton and grain "gambling gang" (brokers), roared Mr. Heflin. Let such rascals resign or be run out of Washington...
...Autumn maneuvers by 1,000 French Negro troops and other Allied forces were recently carried out in such manner as to trample down whole fields of ripe grain without compensation to the owners...
...China is today the great military training camp of the world. The traveler meets soldiers at drill along the royal roads, in sacred temple courts, in trampled grain fields; in town and city he is awakened by the blare of the buglers; along every highway, camels, locomotives, buffalo and donkey carts are in busy traffic...
...28th annual International Live Stock Exposition, the 9th annual International Hay & Grain Show and the 3rd annual Illinois Master Farmers Dinner, all in Chicago last week, brought heyday to U. S. and Canadian farmers. Exciting were the contests for the best cattle, horses, sheep, swine and grains shown. Herman Trelle, of Wembley, Peace River, Alberta, Canada, brought samples of oats which yielded him 123 bushels to the acre. The judges gave him the prize, and thus for the sixth time in eight years a Canadian won the oats championship. C. Edson Smith of Corvallis, Mont., was champion wheat raiser...
...Members of the Chicago Board of Trade (grain marketing) last week voted to erect a $10,000,000 building of 40 stories. One member sold his seat last week for $10,000, highest sale price since 1919. That year seats were worth $11,100. ¶Again, a buyer for a New York Curb Exchange seat paid a new record price, $65,000. Trader William A. Scott bought it last week. A fortnight ago the record was $45,000 (TIME...