Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afllicted U. S. farmer's wildest hopes. Five grades of cash wheat here sold as high as $2.10 a bushel, while futures have advanced 80 cents from the low point of 1924, and 18 cents during the past two weeks. Arthur Cutten, prominent speculator, and Julius Barnes, famed grain expert, both predict $2.50 wheat before the new 1925 crop is raised-old grain traders declare they have never seen such a market...
...refusal to evacuate Cologne contained all the typical elements of what is known in Germany as the agonizing 'After-War', and in France as 'Poncareism': that is first a skillful and violent press propaganda, with no more than the proverbial grain of truth, depicting a Germany armed to the teeth, with the most outrageous allegations just vague enough to make a checkling up impossible; then, with public opinion sufficiently indignant the stronger party constitutes itself judge and pronounces judgment, and finally in an arrogant note, refuses to divulge to the other party the evidence on which judgment is based...
...present year, will no longer supply a surplus for export in 25 to 35 years at the present rate of population increase in this country Already per capita crop production is 5% less than in the five years before the War. Meantime, the need of Europe for imported grain will increase, unless her population growth comes to a standstill; while Canada Australia, Argentina and other grain producing countries, like the U. S. are gradually growing up to hav smaller and smaller export surpluses The effect of this cannot be immediate, but it is well within the range of vision...
Bluffing Bluffers was a minor grain in the Christmas grist. It started out to laugh at politics-usually not a difficult thing to do. After the first act, it slipped into melodramatic farce with all the values torn into broad comic strips and hurled heedlessly across the footlights. The tearers were a downtrodden doctor who sets himself up as the bunk boss of a small town, and a rich and vapid widow; the opposition was the Irish Imperator of the village. Occultism is included and a fake Hindu servant. Most of the acting was negligible...
Away puffed the little steamer, out of Novorossiisk harbor into the West. After 200 miles of steaming, the dark mountains of Crimea loomed to starboard. There lay Balaclava, where the British charged; there Sevastapol, where they used to ship tons of grain from the eastern Steppes. The little steamer heeled off northerly, past Cape Tarkhan, toward the Ukraine, for Odessa...