Word: ib
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...farm income had dropped another $1,700,000,000. According to Milo Reno, a farmer would have to receive the following prices if he was to make the bare costs of production: wheat. $1.35 a bu.; corn, 92?; oats, 49?; hogs, $11.25 a cwt.; chickens 24? a Ib. Last week's Chicago prices: wheat, 85?; corn, 45?; oats, 35?; hogs, $4.60; chickens, 10?. These being Chicago prices, farmers' receipts were lower by the amounts of transportation, storage and brokerage fees...
...raising prices, reducing acreage. Last week the oldest co-operative of all, Farmers' National Grain Dealers Association, split in two over policy, and the nation had on hand a 500,000,000 bu. surplus of corn, a 150,000,000 bu. surplus of wheat, a 500,000,000 Ib. surplus of hogs...
...Ib. rice...
...From the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Federal Surplus Relief Corp. acquired 9,200,000 Ib. of pork, started it on its way from Chicago to feed New York City's and Buffalo's hungry idle...
...began to operate Walter Brown, then Postmaster General, increased this subsidy to $2,185,000 per year. But Export Steamship was not overburdened with postal cargo. From August 1928 to June 1929 its ships carried precisely three pounds of mail, a cost to the Government of $234,980 per Ib. In 1929 it carried one pound of mail for $115,335. For fiscal 1931 it carried eight pounds of mail for $125,820 per Ib. Its defense was that ocean mail contracts are only a legal pretext for an outright subsidy, that its ships always had cargo space reserved...