Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hadn't seen that Bill was there, I would have kept the puck myself." Bill was Bill Cook, oldest active player on the Rangers, leading scorer of the National League, finishing what he thinks may be his last season of hockey before he retires to his Saskatchewan wheat farm. He took the puck without breaking his stride, feinted to bring tall Lome Chabot away from the Toronto net, then flipped the puck over Chabot's shoulder for the goal that ended the game 1 to 0, the series...
Last week wheat had its first whirl on the Chicago Board of Trade since the excitement when that market opened after the bank holiday. Spot wheat touched 63?, up 5? for the week...
...from the rest of Australia are 800 miles of uninhabited country. Among the jack rabbits, kangaroos and kookaburra birds that laugh hysterically and swallow snakes, live half a million farmers who till the fertile belt so successfully that they produce more than one fourth of Australia's wheat. Western Australians have long looked sideways at the Commonwealth's densely populated states, at the Eastern manufacturers who profit from the Commonwealth's high tariff, at the public works paid for by Australia's huge borrowings since the War. To humor their grudge, the State Legislature last December...
...depressions, the beginning of inflations are marked by rising commodity prices. Many a depressed trader began to take heart last week. It was fine that corn was strong because higher corn prices mean bigger farm income for more farmers than do higher wheat prices...
Other commodities were on the mend. Sugar was up. Surpluses of sugar and wheat both reported down. Copper was up on news that U. S. mines were preparing for a six-month complete shutdown...