Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While war talk is a stockmarket depressive it is always a shot in the arm for the grain market. As the bumper U. S. wheat harvest rolled north last week, the red cereal soared to a high of $1.26½ per bu. on the Chicago Board of Trade, registered a net gain of 10? for the week. Even more important than war talk was the disastrous failure of the wheat crop in Canada, where drought & rust in the past few weeks have cut 150,000,000 bu. off early estimates of the Dominion's harvest...
...every sense of the word Rightists were anxious to make hay last week. Harvest time was almost at hand, and neither army will eat this autumn unless the barns are filled in the next few weeks. Reliable reports, too, had it that Rightist Franco's German and Italian backers were giving him his last chance, knowing that the Spanish adventure has become intensely unpopular with humble citizens in Germany and Italy...
...Texas, where harvest hands are already beginning to drift north after the first threshings, the Board estimated winter wheat production at about 39,000,000 bu. compared to 17,000,000 bu. last year. In Kansas, greatest U. S. wheat-growing State, the estimate was 142,264,000 bu. of hard winter wheat compared to 120,000,000 bu. last year. Winter wheat production for the country as a whole will be about 649,000,000 bu., nearly twice that of the drought year, 1933, and 130,000,000 bu. over 1936. Since this is roughly the amount of wheat...
...launched in which correspondents counted a shell every ten seconds. Across the Straits of Gibraltar from Spanish Morocco, Generalissimo Franco rushed 14,000 more troops, some of them foreign volunteers and tatterdemalion striplings. In a few weeks he will sidetrack great numbers of troops to reap the July grain harvest if he wants his soldiers to have enough to eat this autumn...
Having watched the stockmarket hit its fourth bottom without a heartening rally last week, Wall Street began to lift an anxious eye to the general business picture. Was the stockmarket forecasting another slump? Pooh-poohing the "harvest of gloomy warnings," Cleveland Trust Co.'s Leonard P. Ayres observed last week: "The declines in stock, bond and commodity prices are not astonishing. They were all overdue, for prices had been marked up overly fast by speculation. . . . Probably the chief cause of our worries is that most of us have forgotten that even during recoveries there are no such things...