Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With sympathy and determination, Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine went to Chicago, turned his attention to the Chicago Board of Trade, the great market place of U. S. grain...
...Board has a place in this country, with its dealing in grain futures. But I think it should be cleaned up-and cleaned up from the inside. It has a lot of good men in it who want to clean it up and I see no reason why outsiders should butt...
...Promised that, if any evidence of grain price manipulation were uncovered, he would prosecute to the limit, according to the Grain Futures Act ($10,000 fine and one year in prison...
...Announced that he was looking forward to possible reorganization of the Grain Marketing Co. (Great Combination of grain-marketing companies-Armour Grain Co., Rosenbaum Grain Corporation, J. C. Schaffer & Co., Rosenbaum Bros., Davis-Noland-Merrill Grain Co.-organized, last year (TIME, July 28), to be taken over gradually as a cooperative organization by farmers) with the purpose of "retaining the confidence of the farmers," vital to the success of the Company...
Temperamental weather, including heat, hail and thunder storms, chills and high winds, have proved disturbing to grain prices, although advancing them. Outside that, the week proved serene and somewhat monotonously cheerful. Perhaps the improvement in what is called "business sentiment" was revealed in the stockmarket, where a tendency was shown to lift prices out of their late doldrums...