Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Briefly the Conference is an international pool of men, facts, ideas, in which each delegate must fish for himself...
Although the nine state pools did not consolidate last week, the presence and encouragement of Premiers James G. Gardiner of Saskatchewan and J. E. Brownlee of Alberta caused those attending to hope for a world wheat pool perfected within the next 50 years, no long term for such a movement...
World Wheat Pool Conference. As so often happens to movements of profound significance and wide import, the world conference at Kansas City, Mo., last week of 200 men carrying on great wheat pools received little mention in the daily press. Nine western states of this country already have wheat pools in operation.* Their representatives were at Kansas City. So too were chiefs of the pools of Canada, Australia, Russia, Italy. From South America, Great Britain and elsewhere came messages approving the aims of this conference?to control the price throughout the world of wheat produced by no matter what country...
Colin H. Burnell of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, gloated: "The Canadian wheat pool enrolled 138,000 farmers and handled 212,000,000 bushels of Canadian grain last year, or more than 56%. It is the largest grain handling organization in the world. It owns 700 country elevators and several terminals. The total assets...
...Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine, privately a member of the Kansas wheat pool, attended the conference; declared: "If this conference produces a central structure for the nine state pools, great good will be accomplished...