Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Digging a 9-ft. channel up the Mississippi River (prime "main trunk system") from the mouth of the Illinois to Minneapolis & St. Paul; reaching a 6-ft. channel into the wheat country as far as Sioux City, Iowa, along the Mississippi's tributary, the Missouri...
...York. Until last week, however, the questing art student could not have found a proper Hans Andersen Gingerbread House. This omission has been rectified through a union of the talents of Joseph Urban, globular Viennese Architect and stage setter, and the enthusiasm of Fred H. Bennett, whole-wheat flour man ("Wheatsworth" crackers...
...Department of Agriculture, anxious to reduce wheat acreage, came out with a lengthy report of which the essence was: "While improvement is expected over the low level of prices in the past month, the present prospect is that world wheat prices during the next seven years will average appreciably lower than in the past seven years...
Cotton. Meanwhile the cotton crop was in no better position than wheat. The spot price in southern markets last week was down to 12? per lb., 33⅛% under last year's price level. The Farm Board's new Cotton Stabilization Corp., similar to grain stabilization, prepared to take over one million bales of the 1929 surplus held by cooperatives for loans, and thereby commence its market career with an initial loss of $15,000,000 to clear the way for the 1930 crop. Last week the first bale of the new crop reached the New Orleans exchange...
...Kansas farmers declare the cost of producing a bushel of wheat is about 80? though Wheat Farming Corp. contends it can raise wheat...