Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land, no trust-busting Federal attorney, can interfere when Nature conspires in restraint of trade. In Kansas, No. 1 winter wheat State, the past three months' (September, October, November) "normal" rainfall expectation was 6.09 inches of rainfall; this year, actual rainfall was 1.75 inches. Nebraska, which expects 4.53 inches, got 1.15; Iowa, expecting 7.81 inches, got 2.82. Total U. S. water shortage reached 400,000,000,000 tons, left several States with their next-to-record drought, left Wisconsin with its smallest rainfall on record...
...great alluvial plain around Peking into Shansi's mountains. Fighting has ranged, and still ranges, all over the province. Most coveted area is the Chin River Valley at the centre of the province-a tiny, complete world shut away by cupping mountains; a valley once bright with wheat, cotton, corn, yellow rice, persimmons, pears; surrounding hills dotted with grazing sheep and goats; and folded into the hills untold treasures of coal and iron. When the Japanese began a drive into that valley late last summer, White decided that was the part of Shansi he wanted most...
...fullest use, in the common interest, of both Empires' raw materials, production means, tonnage. Thus, if the French Army needs 6-inch shells worse than the British need anti-aircraft shells, British factories will hustle the former instead of the latter. Or if Britain needs bottoms for Canadian wheat worse than France needs them for Algerian mutton, to Canada they shall...
Broker Burton-Baldry further noted that British imports of Empire cotton have risen 300% since 1914. And that Britain in 1913-18 imported 52% of her wheat from the U. S., whereas today she need import none from outside the Empire...
Steel production stood at 95%; cotton, wheat and other agricultural products showed strength; the automobile business was booming, except for strike-bound Chrysler; third-quarter reports of U. S. business were sensational; many a dividend check-regular, and extra-was going into the mailman...