Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*His appointed successor: tall, careful Clarence Griffith Stoll, who at 56 has been vice president in charge of Western Electric's operations for eleven years.
No law of the land, no trust-busting Federal attorney, can interfere when Nature conspires in restraint of trade. In Kansas, No. 1 winter wheat State, the past three months' (September, October, November) "normal" rainfall expectation was 6.09 inches of rainfall; this year, actual rainfall was 1.75 inches. Nebraska...
So the crop condition of winter wheat last week was 59.4% of normal, lowest on record, and a harvest of only 389,000,000 bushels is expected (down 43.3% from this year) and the price of wheat soared from 87!^ Nov. 28, past the haloed $1 mark to hit a...
Any further drastic price rise is likely to be dampened by the 230,000,000 bushels carried over from the last crop year (of which approximately 175,000,000 bushels are in hock to the U. S. Government), but the chances of wheat staying around $1 were helped by news...
¶ To the bankrupt Rock Island, Missouri Pacific, St. Louis-San Francisco, to the prosperous Union Pacific, Burlington, U. S. winter wheat adds up to a substantial portion of summer revenue. Largest of the winter wheat carriers is the Santa Fe. Wall Street Journal dug up some interesting figures on...