Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That love of great spaces, of rolling open country like the sea-it's the grand passion of my life. I tried for years to get over it. I've stopped trying. It's incurable." When she was living in France she used to haunt the wheat fields; once while she watched the harvesting she burst into homesick tears...
...rival of Hickman Price in winter wheat acreage is James Jelinek who was waiting last week to harvest his 28,800-acre kingdom near Alliance, Neb. Mr. Jelinek uses 20 tractors, 14 combines, 12 trucks, 40 men. His harvest is 620,000 bu. He has his private elevator on the Burlington track...
Meanwhile in Washington wheat prices produced political palpitations. The drive to get the Government to DO SOMETHING was centred on Farm Board Chairman Stone. But Mr. Stone's head and heart were steeled against the clamor. He persisted in his refusal to hold all stabilized wheat off the market, explained that only small sales were being made to millers, that the Board would not sell in competition with the 1931 crop at current prices. Said he: "There is no price to which wheat might fall that would persuade the Board to resume stabilization buying. . . . Wheat is selling...
What disturbed President Hoover most was a new note of attack sounded by the erstwhile friendly Kansas City Star. Editorialized the Star: "If the U. S. can relieve Germany of $250,000,000 in debts, the Government can afford to pay $60,000,000 to hold back its wheat. If a foreign nation is entitled to a moratorium the American farmer should have...
Apparently in reply to the Star, President Hoover soon telegraphed Kansas' Senator Capper: "A considerable part of the price difficulties of Kansas wheat farmers is due to the present paralysis of the export market arising from economic crisis in Central Europe. . . . The major problem has been solved by aid given to Germany in postponement of reparations . . . and I am confident we will bring about a solution to the remaining difficulties. I know of no greater immediate service to the Kansas farmer than re-establishment of normal economic life in that [German] quarter...