Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...towering apparition of the 1928 presidential campaign was the Equalization Fee for Farm Relief. Urged by Senator Borah and other Insurgent Republicans, it was decried by regular Republicans as an economic horror. Under it, the U. S. would have bought surplus wheat from farmers at market prices less a fixed fee, shipped the wheat abroad to sell for what it would bring. The Government's losses on the transaction would have been "equalized" in part by the farmers...
...American-Hawaiian Steamship 1,187 285 American Locomotive 6,851 3,778 American Thermos Bottle 323 201 Baldwin Locomotive Works 2,300 3,036 Bon Ami 1,455 1,356 Century Ribbon Mills 27D 172D Chrysler Corp 21,902 234 Consolidated Cigar 3,314 2,372 Cream of Wheat 1,882 1,868 Drug 17,013 21,123 Gabriel 618D 98D General Bronze 1,128 969D General Printing Ink 1,378 850 Hayes Body 245D 852D Houston Oil 1,731 1,655 Lehigh Valley Coal 1,190 714 Marshall Field 9,218 4.724 Mathieson Alkali 2,324 2,096 National...
...Farm Board is now carrying approximately 130,000,000 bu. of wheat, 2,000,000 bales of cotton, all bought high above the current market in an attempt to sustain domestic prices. These operations have put the Board $100,000,000 into...
...from its present market program. Though Chairman Legge would not give a yes-or-no answer, he did say: "If a street car were to run over me tonight, the Board would go on exactly as it has been and no one would know the difference." Demanding a 20% wheat acreage reduction Chairman Legge declared realistically that otherwise "this stabilization effort will have to be abandoned, the loss written off and the adjustment left to the old-time principle of the survival of the fittest...
...rumor circulated in New York yesterday of a revolution in Russia is regarded here simply as an attempt to rig the wheat market...