Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the rhetorical defenses were booming like long-range guns from Washington, other defenders were down on the actual battleline. At Fayetteville, Ark., AAAssistant Director for Production D. P. Trent was telling farmers that AAA is not regimentation at all, that "the most regimental form of regimentation" was cheap grain prices, foreclosed mortgages. At Reno, AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis cried that opponents of AAA had but one idea, the same idea which led to the Depression: to keep the Government from helping farmers. And, most indefatigable of all, was the generalissimo himself, Secretary Wallace. At Ruston, La., at Paducah...
...flour and cereals, 155 lb. of potatoes, 310 qt. of milk, 135 lb. of leafy and other green vegetables, 165 lb. of meat and fish, an egg for breakfast every day. Researcher Doane discovered that with 1929's good crops every citizen could have been provided with all the grain, potatoes, beans, peas, nuts, fats, bacon and lard called for by the diet?and the U. S. would still have had a surplus of 267,000,000 bu. of grain, of a billion pounds of potatoes, etc. But when it came to milk the U. S. would have been...
...grain experts could predict with perfect confidence that no one will starve for wheat. Piled high in grain elevators in the U. S., Canada and elsewhere are huge carry-overs from last year. From a curse these carryovers have now become a blessing. The U. S. has 265,000,000 bu. to cover her 140,000,000 bu. shortage for this year. By July 1935 the U. S. carry-over will be reduced to around 120,000,000 bu.?a normal carryover for the first time in seven years. Canada's surplus from last year...
...from Canada became alarming, did Liverpool traders begin to push the price. October wheat at Liverpool last week reached 86¢. Some U. S. speculators were proclaiming last week that in the domestic market, which is effectively isolated from the world by a 42¢ tariff, the sky was the limit. Grain experts felt that U. S. wheat prices at present crop estimates might go to $1.25 but not much higher...
...necessary. He was pleased that the people said of him: "He is a man of business." His principle: "If in doubt, kill! Nor fear that you waste aught of value." His aim was to govern well; when he found that modernization went against the country's grain he benevolently preserved the status quo. He permitted the kind of free press that Mussolini enjoys. When a newspaper offended him he confiscated its owners' property, paid for it in worthless bonds. His laws were few but so sternly administered that crime became practically unknown. Said he: "It is my belief...