Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that eating liver (invaluable treatment for pernicious anemia) may arouse cancer or stimulate existing cancer. The idea seems to have sprung from research which found that experimental cancers grew faster in liver-fed mice and rats than in rats and mice fed on fresh uncooked muscle, vegetables, wheat or meat. Dr. William Hewy Woglom of Columbia University sought to check this research. He liver-fed seven dozen rats diseased with four kinds of cancers, concluded: "Uncooked beef liver . . . had no demonstrable effect upon the growth of any of these four tumor strains...
While Mr. Bennett was making his "bone-shaped" dog food and W'heatsworth's whole-wheat crackers, the tung trees in Florida grew tall, bore fruit. A group of important paint & varnish makers, in whose business the oil is a main raw material and whose purchases of it from China are a large part of the $15,000,000 worth imported by the U. S., grew interested. In 1924 they formed American Tung Oil Corp. to start a 225-acre grove. Sherwin-Williams, Valspar, du Pont, Devoe & Raynolds, Pratt & Lambert and Benjamin Moore & Co. were among the experimenters...
Finally the Soviet Government, for the first time in two years, entered the foreign wheat market as a heavy buyer. By this time last year 85 million bushels of Soviet wheat had been sold or dumped on the world market. This year Russia is not only eating her wheat and permitting her peasants to drive hard bargains for it, but has purchased in the last fortnight three million bushels from Canada for delivery in foreign bottoms to the Soviet Far East port of Vladivostok...
...which has been affected more seriously than any other section of Europe, is the arrival at a mutual agreement for economic unity. In the long run, how- ever, the crisis cannot be solved without the cooperation of Germany and Italy, since Austria is unable to dispose of the surplus wheat produced in Hungary and Czechoslovakia by itself...
...through the nation's banks into Industry. In February, with the Glass-Steagall bill, it went to the rescue of the banks themselves by giving them a bigger & better pipe line into the Federal Reserve System. It was now proposed to pump Federal Reserve credit into the commodity markets? wheat, corn, beef, cotton, coffee, sugar. The bill was introduced by Representative Thomas Alan Goldsborough, Maryland Democrat. It required the Federal Reserve "to take all available steps to raise the present deflated wholesale level of commodity prices as speedily as possible to the level existing before the present deflation, and afterward...