Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critics have said that the most artistically significant things in U. S. architecture are not skyscrapers or state capitols but grain-elevators, barns, oil-cracking stills. They say that because the grain-elevator is not plastered with irrelevant art and decoration, because the barn was not preconceived in Paris or Athens, because these buildings are simple, sincere and to-the-point. they are Good...
...cold storage warehouses, special transportation equipment, practice "big business" sales methods. Sixty fruit and truck co-operatives in 25 states have already pledged themselves to market through it. Its board chairman: Julius Howland Barnes, onetime president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, one-time president of U. S. Grain Corp. Its counsel: Aaron Sapiro, famed co-operative organiser who sued Henry Ford for libel. Its promise to city housewives: Fresher, riper fruit and vegetables by reducing marketing delays from farm to table. Its hope: to borrow from the Federal Farm Board...
From an airplane or airship many a blurred earthly detail is clear. European archeologists have utilized this fact in England, Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Africa. In England flyers have spotted old Roman camps because grain growing on their sites had a distinguishably different tint from grain growing on less disturbed soil. In Mesopotamia the soil of filled-in Babylonian irrigation ditches showed a texture different from that of the surrounding soil...
...Baton Rouge. With farm relief at least started in the grain belt, the Board traveled south to Baton Rouge, there to attend a meeting of the American Institute of Cooperation, composed of executives in all lines of farm selling agencies. Each member of the Board had been previously invited to attend in his private capacity as an executive of a cooperative; now all went officially as Board members to discuss technical problems, to make helpful contacts, to gather opinions...
...Administration of the laws controlling speculative trading in grain futures...