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...them that storing the colossal wheat surplus (tying up, among other things, thousands of bins made of precious steel) is already a terrible headache. He begged them to keep all the wheat they could on the farm and to market as much more as possible in the form of livestock and poultry...
...more & more machines; last year they bought a record-breaking $735,000,000 worth v. only $607,000,000 worth (at higher unit prices) in free & easy 1929. They also went in for more electricity (it was poured into their laps by REA), more fertilizer, better seeds, better livestock breeding practices...
Months ago the Agriculture Department warned wheat farmers to build storage facilities if they did not want some 400,000,000 bu. of this year's crop to rot for want of storage space. Consequently, some wheat farmers are already shifting family furniture and livestock, are stuffing wheat into spare rooms, pigsties and woodsheds. More prosperous growers rented empty stores. Meanwhile overworked Western railroads are planning a complete embargo on wheat shipments unless a farmer can prove he has arranged for storage space at the terminal. Harvesting this year's wheat will take thousands of workers whose labor...
...time she is a reminiscing crone of 109, whose makeup is much better than her performance. Elsewhere she is a prairie wife, a Sacramento boardinghouse keeper, a croupier in San Francisco's Crystal Palace, etc. Her most remarkable achievement is to win back her husband's money, livestock and other chattels from a gambler (Brain Donlevy), who is so stunned that he trails her like a whipped dog for eight years. Broadway (Universal) is tired. It has had a long day, and deserves a rest. When it first appeared on Broadway 16 years ago, it was an exciting...
...degree. In the Novosibirsk area, one of the richest in Siberia, cultivated acreage jumped from 3,500,000 in 1913 to over 10,000,000 in 1933. On each of the 6,000 collective farms in this region there is an average of three dairies, with 8.5 head of livestock per family...