Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tumbling almost steadily downward, last week the price of wheat touched the lowest levels on the present crop and cotton crashed to the worst prices since 1927. In wheat the situation seemed a natural one of supply and demand. In cotton the decline was somewhat justified by cold which is said to have killed the boll weevil in large areas. But what caused cotton to drop precipitately was apparently "an unfortunate misunderstanding." Briefly, the "unfortunate misunderstanding" seems to have taken place as follows...
...ahead of France as a U. S. customer. In the first eleven months of 1929, the U. S. sent to Germany $369,256,518 worth of goods (oil, copper, lumber, fruits, lard, lead, chemicals), whereas U. S. exports to France were only $239,741,535 (cotton, oil, machinery, wheat). Of German goods the U. S. took $239,493,977 worth (iron, steel, coal tars, cinema film, toys, paper), while U. S. purchases from France were down to $160,417,371 (clothing, lingeries, perfumes, leather goods, soaps, furs, luxuries...
...Solomon needed aid for the building of his temple, the mighty House of the Lord; Hiram had certain supplies and many artisans. They bargained. The outcome was that Hiram sent Solomon hewed cedars of Lebanon, gold and many an artisan. In return Solomon paid Hiram 20,000 measures of wheat and 20 measures of pure oil per year. (Seven years were required for the building of the Temple.) The subjects of Hiram were evidently gratified at the business acumen of their king, for they built him this new-found statue...
National Biscuit Co. ("Nabisco," "Triscuits," "Uneeda," "Shredded Wheat"): $21,423,000 as against...
Nebraska. Insurgent Republican Senator George William Norris went home to file for renomination in the primary. He anticipated strong Old Guard opposition, possibly in the candidacy of onetime Governor Samuel Roy McKelvie, now wheat member of the Federal Farm Board...