Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government organs boasted that the Soviet harvest is already 96% complete, several weeks ahead of its completion last year, and so bountiful that for the first time since the "Famine Years" (1931-33) correspondents predicted big Soviet grain exports...
...magic figure $1. Dollar wheat has appeared several times since the New Deal but, because U. S. markets are insulated by a high tariff against outside factors, world prices lagged far behind. Winnipeg prices have also been artificially high, due to the stabilization efforts of the Canadian Grain Board. Lacking the stability provided by huge storage facilities. Buenos Aires is erratic. From its year's low Argentine wheat has lately zoomed 25¢ per bu. to a five-year high of 82½¢. The true world price for wheat is therefore set in Liverpool. The Liverpool price has, since early September...
...moreover, the 595.000,000 bu. harvested is light in weight, requiring the use of more bushels per barrel of flour. The surpluses piled up prior to 1933 are nearly exhausted, and before the next harvest U. S. millers must import perhaps 50,000,000 bu. of high-grade Canadian grain over a 42¢-per-bu. tariff...
...farm journalists and Fair officials unanimously predicted that this year's Fair business would knock the spots off last year's. The Corn Belt Farm Dailies glowed with rays of "business sunshine." thanked God for good weather, the Government for good prices. These two factors were responsible for a grain crop up 80% over drought-stricken 1934, for cattle which, fattened on sweet lush grass, were selling $2 per cwt. higher in Chicago than a year ago. In Editor & Publisher, which issued a special supplement full of good farm news. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace estimated that this year...
...crystal globe the size of a golf ball in a small gold pagoda in a large black onyx pagoda on a table in the second-floor study in a house in San Francisco last week rested a tiny object the size of a rice grain. Bishop Kenju Masuyama and two priests, their hands clasped, meditated before it, chanting softly in Japanese. The tiny pellet, they believed, was an authentic bit from the bones of Buddha,* only one in the U. S. Bishop Masuyama, head of the Buddhist Church in North America (12,000 members), got it in Siam last June...