Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...credit can save the Northwest wheat belt, it will be saved. A fortnight ago the President called a conference of bankers and others at Washington to consider the financial difficulties of the Northwest (TIME, Feb. 18). The bankers proposed a $10,000,000 corporation to aid in refunding the farm debts of the threatened section. Last week the bankers reassembled in Chicago to announce subscriptions to the capital stock of the organization. The regional allotment for raising the capital...
...President opened and addressed a conference of bankers and farmers to obtain relief for the farm region of the Northwest...
...conference of agricultural, banking and industrial interests met in Washington at the call of the President. Mr. Coolidge appeared before the conference to make proposals for the "pressing agricultural needs of the Northwest" before" the Conference attacked the problem. He declared: "The principal purpose of this conference is to secure cooperation. Agriculture cannot stand alone. The banks cannot stand alone. A great amount of money has been spent to establish the population of the area affected...
...grow worse. The iron and steel trade, the oils and the sugars have shown the most improvement; automobile companies also feel themselves on firmer ground. But the fertilizers, the textile trade, and the leathers are still uncertainties. Yet there is little fear that the difficulties recently experienced in the Northwest will speed East, and a considerable body of opinion inclines to the view that Europe is turning the corner this Winter...
...memorial to Alfred H. Anderson, pioneer of the Northwest, will be built at the University of Washington* with the sum of $250,000 gift of Mrs. Anderson. It will be a school of forestry probably unsurpassed in the U. S. A museum of samples of every wood known to man will make it unique...