Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gleaming Canada House-the Dominion's splendiferous sandstone outpost facing London's Trafalgar Square -representatives of the Big Four wheat exporting powers (U. S., Canada, Australia and Argentina) bickered in exasperation last week with a Soviet Russian, bland, obstinate Comrade Abraham Gourevitch...
Comrade Gourevitch had just one answer to everything the Big Four asked Russia to do: "Why should we?" The Big Four insisted that the Soviet Union, which did not sign the World Wheat Pact clause to raise prices by limiting exports next year (TIME, Sept. 4), must accept and abide by a reasonable quota. The Pact was signed on the assumption that Russia could not possibly export more than 50,000,000 bu. The signatories limited themselves as follows: Canada 200,000,000 bu.; Australia 110,000,000; Argentina 105,000,000; U. S. 45,000,000, the Danube countries...
...Golden Harvest," this week's feature at the Metropolitan, is a mild bit of adventure apparently inspired by the time-honored farm problem. The producers give taint intimations of attempting an epic but, being unable to solve the problem of surplus wheat any better than a Farm Beard, they content themselves with merigages and government aid for the farmers...
Richard Arlen and Chester Morris, the two brothers who inherit a wheat farm, are two of the Playgoer's favorite actors. "Golden Harvest" supplies an ideal role for Arlen where his straight-forward masculinity is unrestrained by wing collar or the stare of social dictators. Chester Morris is the prodigal who leaves the farm and "cleans up" in the Chicago Wheat Pit. He does this by the simple expedient of dressing up in rubber coat and hat, walking under a shower bath, and stampeding the Pit by crying. "Rain, rain," thus forcing down the price about ten cents and crowning...
...delivery next month the sheet-iron will be distributed at cost to Argentine wheat farmers to wall in their sprouting fields. The dread locusts in the hungry hopper stage will come hopping into the sheet-iron, hop short, pile up in rustling drifts. Workmen will rake them up, burn them in oil or sack them for sale to the Department of Agriculture Defense. The dried and sacked locusts will be sold abroad as fertilizer...