Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Federal Farm Board went on trial for its life before the Senate Committee on Agriculture. Lifted for the first time was the cloak of official secrecy with which for 28 months it had guarded the details of the Board's wheat and cotton stabilization operations. Curious Senators poked roughly into facts and figures which Farm Boarders had long feared would damage their agency's economic prestige. What was disclosed served to intensify the industrial clamor for the Board to be abolished as a futile waster of public funds. Lobbyists for farm organizations were no less...
...WHEAT...
...Cheered the patriotic announcement that His Majesty's Government will soon introduce a bill making it unlawful to sell flour in the United Kingdom which contains less than 15% of British wheat. So incensed was the French Government by this proposal that it "retaliated" last week by raising the compulsory proportion of French flour in French bakers' bread from...
...educational world is notoriously fertile ground for theories and it is often difficult to know which should be classed with the wheat and which with the tares. Where there is some measure of agreement, it is unfortunate that the general opinion should not be carried into effect. Such a situation, however, is approached in the present condition of the tutorial system...
...Business men in a depression of this sort think they would like a war as they could sell more wheat and other commodities and so do away with employment. This is no way out, and this attitude does much harm. They say today that America would make money, but they would repudiate these benefits if they themselves were in any way dangerously involved in war." We should not lend Japan money to carry on its war, the speaker added, in case we should have to go to war to save our loan, and thus become accomplices...