Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only reason why a large part of the world during the last two years was driven off the gold standard, why the harbors of Germany were congested during the Summer of 1931 with vessels that could not be unloaded because there was no means of payment or why wheat sold for the lowest price in several centuries. Nevertheless, the trade barriers that have been raised during recent years have had much to do with all these matters...
...lately on the bulky shoulders of Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, chairman of the Supreme Economic Council until three weeks ago, the weight of the second Piatiletka will be carried mostly by a hitherto minor figure in Russian industry, Isidor E. Liubimov, onetime Deputy Commissar of Trade and delegate to the London wheat conference last spring. In preparation for the new plan, the Supreme Economic Council was recently reorganized into three separate departments?Heavy Industry, Light Industry and Lumber (TIME, Jan. 18). Commissar Liubimov will have the stupendous task of providing Russia's 147,000,000 people with three times as much food...
...Passed a Resolution by Kansas' Capper to distribute 40,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat to the needy; sent it to the House where Chairman John Barton Payne of the Red Cross told a committee that, if asked to do so, his organization would undertake the wheat's distribution...
Laval's Year. On the morning of Jan. 24, 1931 there was again a French crisis. The Steeg Cabinet had fallen following charges that the Minister of Agriculture had speculated in wheat. Importunate telegrams flashed from the President's Palace to Brer Briand at Geneva begging him to become Premier for the twelfth time...
...Reserve Board, on the merits of a $500,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp. as requested by the President. The Appropriations Committee reported out its deficiency measure. In the Senate the Agriculture Committee approved a proposal by Montana's Wheeler, to turn over an undetermined amount of Farm Board wheat for U. S. hunger relief...