Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left her appeal in manuscript. Other visitors last week who did see the President: Jay Herod, 10, San Francisco violin prodigy, Alayne Brown, 15, St. Louis sharpshooter. ¶ President Hoover signed a bill which will cause the distribution to the needy of 4,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat through the Red Cross. The Red Cross will have the grain milled and should it all be used for human consumption it would make 2,480,000,000 loaves of bread. ¶The President signed a resolution making $10,000,000 available for the formation of agricultural credit corporations through...
...Adopted (344-10-2) a joint resolution giving 40,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat through the Red Cross to the needy, sent it to the President...
Eskimo winters are long and dreary. Summers are short and dreary. When Eskimos are not busy mushing about, gobbling raw meat and candles, they sit down for a rubber of bridge. And many Eskimos play rather well, too. At Churchill, Canada's new wheat port on Hudson Bay (TIME, Sept. 14), 30 men meet regularly for jump-bids and approach-forces throughout the winter. For one of these there had to be a substitute last week; Arsene Turquetil had laid aside his cards, put on his fur cap and gone down south to Montreal. Arsene Turquetil was hard to replace...
...banking system with State currency issued against cotton and wheat; 3) abolition of ad valorem taxes on homes and farms; 4) maximum income taxes on "excess salaries of corporation managers"; 5) impeachment for Federal judges who abuse the power of jurisdiction; 6) conscription of money as well as men in the next war; 7) full payment of the soldier bonus; 8) coinage of "enough gold and silver to meet normal demands"; 9) tariff reduction. Adopting this platform, delegates loudly declared that "the great battle of 1932 is America against Wall Street, special interests and predatory wealth." Governor Murray loosed...
...Reduction 3,815 5,250 Best & Co 926 1,265 Calumet & Hecla 2,573 d 6d Caterpillar Tractor 1,361 8,714 Consolidated Laundries 689 771 Continental Baking 4,243 6,114 Cream of Wheat 1,504 1,868 Glen Alden Coal 7,391 12,245 Industrial Rayon 683 1,547 La Salle Extension University 75 167 Lima Locomotive 1.414 d 1,382 McGraw-Hill 869 2,021 New Jersey Zinc Co 3,051 5,013 Parke, Davis & Co 6,292 7,514 Standard Brands...