Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only the Allies borrowed money from the U. S. during the War. But in 1920 onetime enemy Hungary, on the brink of famine, bought on credit 13,890 tons of flour from the U. S. Grain Corp. at a price of $1,685,000. Increased by the time it was funded in 1924 to $1,939,000 (including interest), Hungary's debt went into default with the War debts during the world crisis that provoked the Hoover Moratorium...
About three-quarters of all burls go to Europe. There, in the veneer Tnills of France, Italy, England, Germany, revolving lathes like apple peelers cut them up into great strips about 1/50 of an inch thick. The grain pattern of burl veneer is an incredibly complicated tangle of knots and loops and swirls, often beautiful, always very elaborate. A good proportion of the U. S. burl veneer is then shipped back to the furniture factories of the U. S., where it is carefully glued on decorative pieces like radio cabinets...
...record Poet Pound's attempted circumnavigation of the world of space-time curved within the convolutions of his brain. The voyage proceeds along a course unexploited by earlier epic navigators. These poet-navigators attempted to carry their loads to their readers' understandings somewhat as Australian grain boats, knot by knot, carry wheat to Liverpool. Poet Pound's boating is more like a torpedo bug's: he scoots about his map every which way, and tries to be everywhere on it as simultaneously as possible...
...began to lend it money. When it was reorganized in 1936 there were $14,000.000 worth of Government loans to be canceled. It was then lent $7,500,000 more by the Farm Credit Administration. It was supposed to repay this sum by an assessment on every bushel of grain it sold for its members. The members objected...
...Chicago's Board of Trade, members protested loudly. It finally got admitted by buying up a Nebraska company which was already a member. Now part of its assets are five memberships, worth some $3,000 apiece. The Farm Credit Administration a year ago took over most of its grain elevators. About all it has left is 3,000,000 bushels of wheat and almost 1,000.000 bushels of corn. This will be sold, said Farmer Horn, "in an orderly manner" during the next five or six months. The ten regional cooperatives-in Chicago; Kansas City; Minneapolis; Amarillo, Tex.; Denver...