Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany faces several extraordinary problems. Her resources are low, and her unemployed number 3,000,000. In this country the wages of one worker may support two people; in Germany the wage scale has been depressed to the lowest point. Russian dealings in wheat might conceivably boost German industry; but it is useless to make any predictions as to when she will emerge from the present worldwide economic depression. Secretary Lamont stated that reparations have been removed from politics, which is inherently nonsense; all five German parties suggested a change in the Young Plan at the last election...
When Russian wheat exports ceased during the War, farmers in the Americas and elsewhere added to their fields until today they have 42,000,000 more acres under wheat than...
With Russian production curtailed during her revolutionary and early reconstruction periods, these 42,000,000 extra acres have been needed, profitable. But now, with Soviet production gradually creeping up, Red wheat, added to the rest, is producing a primary, "genuine" world surplus and depression of wheat prices, this quite apart from the secondary, "artificial" slump which Dictator Stalin's shrewd machinations may produce...
Amid some grumbling the $20,000 expenditure was approved. "Hmp," growled Italy's Senator Giuseppe de Michelis. "I am willing to approve a Scientific study, but what is the use of it? We all know what has caused Depression: overproduction and underconsumption. We have more wheat, for example, than we can eat. We must seek by research other ways to use wheat than by eating...
...Bethalto, 111., George Kabel, 8y-year-old farmer, estimated that he had threshed enough wheat in his lifetime to make 118,-320,000 loaves of bread...