Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barter. By far the most completely organized and successful barter group now operating is the Natural Development Association of Salt Lake City. It was organized by Benjamin B. Stringham, a realtor, during the harvest time of 1931 when city laborers needed food but had no money to buy it and farmers needed hands but had no money to pay them. The laborers worked for farm produce. The N. D. A. now operates an oil refinery, two canning factories, a tannery, a coal mine. It has a two-story headquarters at Salt Lake City in which it maintains a produce...
...certificates, negotiable, would have fixed values as follows: wheat 42? per bu.; cotton 5? per lb.; tobacco 4? per lb.; hogs 2? per lb. After harvest the farmer would sell his full crop in the open market. Thereupon the Treasury would step in and collect as an excise tax 42? from millers on every bushel of wheat they bought for flour, 5? from spinners on every pound of cotton, 4? from cigaret & cigar manufacturers on every pound of tobacco, 2? from meat packers on every pound of hog. Thus special treasury funds would be created out of which the Secretary...
...slumped less dolorously since. Banker Bullock also believes that Canada is in a stage of industrial development comparable to the U. S. before the turn of the century, when investment opportunities were lushest. That his new trust may be in on the Canadian know, may garner the fullest harvest for both Canadian and U. S. investors, Banker Bullock has assembled an amazing roster of Canadian potency for his directorate. With him on the board will sit President Arthur Blaikie Purvis of Canadian Industries, Ltd., "the du Pont of Canada"; Hon. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, foxy Prime Minister of Quebec since...
KAYE-SMITH (Sheila) Green Apple Harvest...
SEAMAN (Owen) Harvest of Chaff...