Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Mid-1929, farm commodity values have dropped 60%. whereas nonagricultural prices have declined only 32%. The prime purpose of the Roosevelt bill was to pull farm prices up to the same level as other prices. Commodities selected for upping: wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, cattle, sheep, rice, tobacco and milk and its products. Picked as a standard to which agricultural prices were to rise to restore their parity with industry was the average pre-War level of 1909-14. Five bushels of wheat then bought a good pair of shoes which today cost nearer twelve. Secretary...
...Wheat...
...Prices. Anticipating a buying wave when the bank holiday passed, many prices moved up, giving the lie to the bearish signs of stoppages. Meat prices made the stiffest advance but yielded when housewives refused to increase purchases. Wheat prices were generally up in Winnipeg and other world markets. Cotton moved up a bit at Liverpool. These half-promises of better returns for farmers gave a hopeful indication that farm buying power might be bettered, mail order business and farm machinery business improved...
...path. There are hatchet-men lurking in every misty street; twitching bodies are hurled from burly coaches into squalid streets; gentlemen with slanted eyes find their necks stretched in uncomfortable machines while a merry troop of rats nibbles their big toes; there is the sparse fellow with a shredded wheat beard who carries poison under his finger nails. And just because 5000 miles away a Revolution is being conducted in China, all the male characters in this play meet violent deaths. If one were not cinematically informed as to Chinese proclivities, he would be sorely tempted to apply the word...
Possibly you would consider the chief engineer as the outstanding man in this case. His name is T. C. Hsi and he claims Massachusetts Institute of Technology as his alma mater. You may remember that this work was financed by the loan of American wheat plus a surtax on the Chinese customs revenue...