Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. Corn futures also hit the skids, dropping below 50? a bu. for the first time in four years. However, the Department of Agriculture's official estimate of a 2,566,221,000 bu. 1938 corn crop meant that the harvest (plus the carryover) will be 27,000,000 bu. short of an "excessive supply"; hence there will be no referendum to give farmers an opportunity to get marketing quotas imposed. Third item last week on the Department of Agriculture's busy calendar was its estimate...
...government made loans to the farmers and these loans were to be repaid after the harvest. In order to keep the price of grain from rising and falling, the government was to buy up the grain when the prices began to fall and to sell it when prices rose. Instead of utilizing forced labor to carry out all the government's public works, he proposed to pay for this labor and levied an income tax to provide the treasury with the necessary funds...
...audience behavior; exchange (economic) and politic (political); nomothetic (behavior in regard to law); and such "escape" types of group behavior as panic, revelous, fanatical and rebellious.† By "revelous" behavior. Dr. La Piere means all kinds of revelry which serve to discharge tensions accumulated in day-to-day living-harvest festivals of peasants, New Year's celebrations in cities, orgiastic dances of primitives, American Legion conventions. Having set up his categories of collective behavior, Dr. La Piere analyzes them in terms of their origins, functions, participants and ideologies-"ideology" being the reason for their behavior given by the participants...
Aside from extending for two more years the International Wheat Agreement (drawn up in 1933 to limit wheat production and export), the 25 delegates from 16 nations* did nothing last week except view the outlook with much alarm. Conference experts figured that the world harvest, excluding the Soviet Union, China and Manchukuo, would total 4,205,000,000 bu., 216,000,000 bu. above the all-time record set in 1928. Especially ominous was the prospect for the U. S. Once a major wheat exporter (200,000,000 bu.), the U. S. last year sold only...
...practice." He had started a commune on a parcel of land in Virginia which the Apostle Paul assured him was the site of the Garden of Eden. That broke up because of his predilection for young girls. During the diphtheria epidemic the Templers had not been able to harvest the crops. They had no way of getting through the winter. James Prince had $20,000. Despite the opposition of Isaiah, Father Swann took...