Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time, it was announced that Russian fur and game exports last year amounted to $75,000,000-second only to grain. And it was pointed out that sable was worth more than its weight in gold: 36 pounds of gold are worth 21,000 gold rubles, whereas 36 pounds of sable (180 skins) are worth 22,500 gold rubles...
Perhaps you wonder why such solemn puerilities as I have described are not laughed out of countenance. You must remember that freedom of thought is a serious thing. If there be a grain of truth in a ton of dress, you accept the ton for the sake of the grain. For the world is a big place, and there is room for everybody, and each man has the inalienable right to be as eccentric as he pleases. It is my own conviction that the Why-nots are quite harmless. But think of the wasted energy...
Conditions of the soil in the Union make the crop yield low. Possibly less grain is grown to the acre than in any country in the world. This makes cheap labor essential to the farmers and cheap labor is invariably black or yellow. The same can be said of the great Rand and other mining industries where white working men are employed almost exclusively as overseers...
...month ago, liquidation in the grain and security markets became pronounced, after an optimistic winter of steadily advancing prices. The question arose as to the real significance of the March setback in the speculative markets. Some held it to be the "peak" of a major business cycle. Others considered it merely a temporary readjustment of speculative dreams to hard realities, and thus a movement of secondary importance...
...still too early to interpret the recent break in prices with entire accuracy. Yet, in last week's developments, the party of the second part seems to have received partial confirmation of its views in the gradual firming of grain and security prices...