Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wheat Down, Flour...
...farmer is selling his wheat here for about 60? now. A year ago he received $1.20. Flour is the same price. Every bushel of wheat milled since Aug. 1, 1929 made the miller or someone 60? more than he made before. The Farm Board has 20,000,000 bushels of old wheat. Why not buy a few mills instead of elevators and give the people the flour based on present price of wheat? Flour retails here about $2 for a sack of 48 lb. When wheat was 60? some 15 years ago we bought flour at 85? per sack...
...Wheat last week continued to make economic and perhaps political history when the Chicago price dropped to 83?¢ per bu., lowest since 1914. For the first time in 28 years corn sold in the pits 2¢ per bu. above wheat instead of the usual 20¢ or 30¢ below. The husbandman's cry of "Crisis!" rose more shrilly throughout the land. Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board abruptly departed from Washington on a second crusade through the West for wheat acreage reduction (TIME, Aug. 4). En route he paused at Chicago to confer with cotton growers...
...Grain Stabilization Corp.; George S. Milnor, general manager. This agency bought and now holds for the farm board 69.000.000 bu. of wheat...
...Farmers National Grain Corp., of Chicago; Clarence Elmer Huff, president. F. N. G. C. sells wheat for members or loans them 85% of the spot price. Last week it said it was handling one-third of all wheat through Kansas City, predicted it would handle half the U. S. crop next year, claimed that in the foreign field it was already the world's biggest factor...