Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clothing business, as in the wheat business, the cotton business, and many another business, a surplus of products has piled up. In New York, for example, there are 200,000 unsold men's garments on the manufacturers' shelves. Until these surpluses are sold, explained Mr. Hillman, his Amalgamated Clothing Workers will not get much work...
...boys' suits, made under widely varying conditions in different parts of the country, have no easily determined market price. If the Government undertook to stabilize the clothing industry, it would have on its hands a production-&-price control problem beside which reducing next year's wheat acreage would be child's play. Moreover, if the Government should subsidize one manufacturing business, where then could it stop, at automobiles or animal crackers, at zeppelins or zithers? Last month, in ordering 60,000,000 yards of cotton textiles for its sewing projects (an increase of 45,000,000 yards...
...Alberta's Social Credit Premier William C. ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, the profitless acres of the neighboring Province of Saskatchewan have long seemed a fertile field for the extension of his political and economic theories. For nine years, Saskatchewan's staple crop-wheat -has either brought non-profit prices or has been burned out by successive droughts. With more than half the Province's 930,893 inhabitants on relief, conditions are fairly favorable for ambitious politicians with any kind of palliatives...
...both sides of the snowcapped, towering Andes, operates on a budget ostensibly balanced, but one which does not show its borrowings and its failure to service its sizable debt. Sweden and Finland are the only two nations with orthodox balanced budgets. Almost self-sufficient in raw materials except for wheat, rice and steel, Peru enjoys a favorable foreign trade balance ($35,400,000 in 1936) largely through extensive exports of cotton, sugar, silver, oil, copper, vanadium and the high-smelling guano (bird manure). Social reforms were pushed by the late, ironfisted, dapper little President Augusto Bernardino Leguia...
...estimate of 1938 crops, commodity exchanges all over the U. S. were jittery. The figures that correspondents relayed to their home offices were not quite so bad as most had anticipated-but bad enough to spur Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace's efforts to perfect a new wheat-loan program. And such were the prospects for the three major crops (others appeared to be in fairly normal shape) that Secretary Wallace and President Roosevelt prepared to dump the cornucopia of Government largess as never before...