Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second important task of the new board will be to help organize and finance special stabilization corporations among farmers to purchase surplus farm products from glutted seasonal markets and hold them in storage pending better prices. In the past such large-scale grain corporations on private capital and under private control have failed. It remains to be seen whether federal cash and supervision can make them successful. Critics of the new farm relief legislation predict that the Federal Farm Board will loan large sums to such corporations which in turn will buy in surplus commodities on a falling price market...
...tonneau floor, a gun at his back. His car, with a stranger at the wheel, was streaking away at 60 m. p. h. A tire blew out. The car overturned. All five men were flung into a ditch, unhurt. W. L. Tribbey and Paul Kille, neighbors, drove up, offered help, were greeted with guns. Would-be Rescuer Kille was beaten over the head and shot in the leg. Captives Kinne, Kille and Tribbey were driven through the mountains, dumped in a field, tied up and deserted. They freed themselves, walked to nearby Greer and sent the alarm through three States...
...bail. The little town's citizenry seethed with indignation against White and "the system" he represented. Banding together they wrote a public protest to President Hoover which concluded: "In our utter helplessness, terror and distraction, we are at last resorting to you. . . . For God's sake, help...
...effervescent tycoons was black-gowned Maître Joseph Paul-Boncour, famed lawyer, author of ponderous tomes, former Minister of Labor. But brash M. Reboux did not rely alone on the fame of oratorical Maître Paul-Boncour. Impressed with the formidable forces against him, he appealed for help to the Syndicat des Journalistes, an organization comparable to the U. S. Authors' League...
...research bureau of the local Welfare Council. The country survey was of 860 farm families (3,990 individuals) living in every State of the Union and in every type of farming country. The Farmer's Wife, monthly magazine published at St. Paul, made this survey with the help of the National Committee on the Cost of Medical Care...