Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land of gold"), he came to Nebraska. When he arrived, he found nothing more than a village of seminomadic Indians, realized that the stories of streets paved with gold were myths, returned to Mexico. But the land has become a land covered with gold-the gold of corn and wheat. Hence Nebraska's annual Royal Castle...
...Iowa, marched along sedately. Wrinkled Albert George Schmedeman, who had been debating with himself all day whether or not to proclaim martial law in Wisconsin, looked troubled and tiny beside moose-tall William Langer of North Dakota, who chews cigars with the cellophane wrapper peeled halfway down and whose wheat embargo was one of the starkest symptoms of the matter they had all come to discuss. Accompanied by big, rawboned George Peek and cadaverous Secretary Wallace, their briefcases bulging with statistics, they were shown up the broad stairs to the Oval Room where President Roosevelt awaited them...
...noisy hum and clatter as usual. The polished brasses gleamed by the big fireplace over which a great white bust of Homer looks down his nose at the carven verse: Back of the Loaf is the snowy Flour, back of the Flour the Mill. Back of the Mill the Wheat and the Shower, the Sun and the Father's will. The boys gobbled and talked, and a master noted that two places were vacant. Down a back stair of West Dormitory and out onto the campus stole a tall gangling boy and a short, plump-cheeked boy-Henry Wetter...
...instruments which President Roosevelt has set up to help the farmer are many. Since May the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has applied its domestic allotment plan (reduction of production compensated by the proceeds of processing taxes) to wheat, cotton, tobacco, hogs. Loans of 10? a lb. are planned for cotton farmers agreeing to crop reduction. In addition, for producers of rice, fruit, peanuts and milk, AAA arranged marketing agreements which were calculated to boost prices. Henry Morgenthau Jr. was authorized to direct a $2,000,000,000 refinancing program to ease the burden of farm mortgagees through Farm Credit Administration...
...Agricultural production costs are highly controversial, vary radically in different sections, widely between adjacent farms. According to the Department of Agriculture, average cost of production of wheat is 75? a bu., of corn 49?, of oats...