Word: rusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snow flies around the threshing machines in Canada's Peace River district on the Arctic's frontier. Through vast areas of Canada's Prairie Provinces the harvest's conglomerate followers will pass swiftly, for those flat lands have been seared by drought, wasted by rust until the Dominion has resigned itself to the lightest wheat crop in modern years...
...throughout the stubbled country to the south the clattering of harvesters and combines made a rejoicing sound. In some spots there had been drought, in others black rust, in still others grasshoppers. But the harvest was the U. S.'s fattest in six long years-a billion-dollar crop. After satisfying its own needs of some 650,000,000 bu. and adding 35,000,000 bu. to its depleted carry-over reserve, the U. S. would have perhaps 165,000,000 bu. to toss into the breadbaskets of Europe...
...mechanical cotton picker. Most successful of such pickers is the machine devised by John D. and Mack Rust of Tennessee, social-minded brothers who are resolved to cushion the impact of the machine on Southern labor but are selling and demonstrating their pickers in Soviet Russia. After several demonstrations U. S. cotton men are still divided as to the Rust picker's practicability...
...rolled north last week, the red cereal soared to a high of $1.26½ per bu. on the Chicago Board of Trade, registered a net gain of 10? for the week. Even more important than war talk was the disastrous failure of the wheat crop in Canada, where drought & rust in the past few weeks have cut 150,000,000 bu. off early estimates of the Dominion's harvest...
...best guess, between 175,000,000 and 200,000,000 bu. Because the critical month of May had been kind to winter wheat, brokers on the Chicago Board of Trade were pretty well prepared for the Crop Reporting Board's estimate. Next day, however, despite reports of black rust in Kansas, the price of July wheat dropped from...