Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheat the Farm Board will ship Brazil is worth about 50? per bu. at current prices, a total of $12,500,000. With 132 lb. to the bag, Brazil's coffee weighs 138,600,000 Ib. and at a trading price of 8½? per Ib. is worth $11,781,000. It amounts to 8% of U. S. coffee consumption. (Last year's imports...
...discrepancy between the coffee value and the wheat value Brazil made up by agreeing to pay Bush Terminal 225,000 bags of coffee (value at current prices: $2,524,000) for its services as commission merchant and storage...
...council of New York University, in which he sits. Many trips to Washington followed, getting the approval of the Farm Board and the President, which was easy; working out with Bush Terminal Co. the innumerable practical details which an idea so simple but so large involved-grading the wheat and coffee, figuring out most economical means and routes of shipping, planning the care of the cargoes, for seldom has so much U. S. wheat been shipped across the hot Equator...
Partner Winans skillfully conducted the negotiations in Brazil, beginning several months ago. Secrecy was essential. Under the saucy nose of Empire Salesman Edward of Wales, under the noses of Argentines and Russians with mountains of wheat for sale or barter, secrecy was kept, the two partners and their friends communicating in code. At the last moment came a scare: the Russians, having traded wheat for Italian fruit, had the same idea. They would dump the coffee they received into the U. S. market instead of marketing it in an orderly way. U. S. coffee men who had been taken into...
China Too? Earlier last week the Farm Board got a nibble at some 15,000.000 bu. or more of its wheat. The Nationalist Government of China inquired through diplomatic channels if the U. S. would consider negotiations whereby Nanking would buy on long-term credit some wheat to relieve Yangtze flood victims (see p. 18). In less than three days the Farm Board responded that it would be delighted to sell to China. Then it waited for the Nationalist Government to make a bid, discuss price and credit terms, show what it would use for money...