Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the take-off George Nelson Peek's Agriculture Adjustment Administration made two statistical decisions of primary importance. One was that current wheat prices were 30? per bu. below the 1909-14 average, so the Government's "allotment" to wheat growers would be 30? per bu. The other was that the U. S. consumes only five-eighths of its total wheat production, so the wheat grower would be paid on only five-eighths of his total crop. On tap in the Treasury was a $200,000,000 credit to get Domestic Allotment off the ground. Of this about...
...taught Donald to bite walls and people, and to peek under doors. Gua's many teeth were blunt and so hurt less than Donald's few. Gua hated perfume and asafetida; Donald liked perfume. Both reacted similarly to sweet, salty and bitter substances. Gua, however, liked sour things. Gua was more ticklish than Donald, frequently tickled herself for pleasure. Gua was first to recognize herself in a mirror, first to show interest in the pictures in a book...
...Secretary Wallace, with the aid of George Nelson Peek of Illinois and Charles John Brand of Minnesota who were appointed co-administrators last week, was ready to proceed cautiously with the other price-upping provisions of the law. His first step called for a series of Washington conferences with the producers and processors of each basic commodity to shape up an operating program on marketing agreements. If most millers consent to buy wheat from growers at $1 per bu., Secretary Wallace can suspend the anti-trust law to sanction such a bargain. If a minority group of millers refuse...
When Spokesman Smith marched in before the seven R. F. C. directors, out in the corridor gathered dozens of chattering clerks, stenographers, typists and underlings, to glimpse the "Happy Warrior." In the door they found a peek-hole through which they watched him pound the board table, wave his cigar, shake his greying head. Cried Al Smith angrily: "The R.F.C. can act like a suspicious banker with two glass eyes or it can take up its social responsibilities and put men to work...
...William Peek Elwell...