Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year-Old Wheat...
...following may be of interest to Henry Pertle and TIME on "Wheat's Life Span" (TIME...
...December 1885 a friend gave me a sample of a special variety of wheat, then six years old, to experiment with as to its life span. I sealed the wheat in paper and sealed container. It lay in my house away from light for 35 years and ten years ago was planted. It had been 41 years since harvested. Every grain seemed to grow. The next year I had quite a patch of measured ground and thrashed out the grain at the rate of 45 bu. per acre...
Embargo, like Tariff, is a game at which any number of nations can play. In Washington, Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board is calling for "a temporary embargo on wheat imports" (TIME, Jan. 5). Last week Argentina got into the game. Her new Provisional Government, headed by swart, hard-eyed, big-mustachioed General Uriburu, suddenly declared an absolute embargo on "Paraguay...
...attempt to knife Canada in her wheat pit, so may Canada knife back at the U. S. with an embargo on manufactured products. Already Australia has clapped embargoes on a list of nearly 100 imports (TIME, July...