Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canada maintained her rank as second largest wheat-seller to Britain, but Argentina dropped from first place to third and the U. S. from third place to fifth...
...matter of fact the volume of U. S. wheat sales to Britain shrank by a spectacular two thirds compared to the corresponding quarter last year...
...first quarter of 1931, the Board of Trade revealed, Great Britain for the first time since the War bought more wheat from Russia than from anywhere else...
...investment structure. It came into existence 36 years ago in Chicago as Raymond, Pynchon & Co., a Board of Trade house and moved to New York the same year. Once thought to be its prize customer was Benjamin F. ("Old Hutch") Hutchinson, greatest of the grain manipulators, who cornered wheat in 1888. Perhaps one reason for the move to Manhattan was that at that time potent Chicago speculators, including John W. ("Bet-a-Million") Gates and Col. John Adams Drake, were transferring activity to Wall Street. Later the firm played a big part in James R. Keene's operations...
...this sum to be spent on unemployment relief, the remaining $30,000,000 to succor Australia's stricken wheat farmers...