Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consensus of economists was that commodities were now back in reasonably good line with other prices, certain farm commodities excepted. Even among them the readjustment was proceeding apace, with wheat down from $1.45 to $1.23 per bu., corn from $1.35 to $1.27 per bu., cotton from 14½? to 12½? per lb. Yet farm prospects are the best in years. With bumper crops expected, prices could drop much more and still leave farmers with the biggest income since Depression. Out last week was a U. S. crop estimate for winter wheat of 654,000,000 bu., biggest since...
...full moonlight, three white cats in the arena playing . . . . 3 donkeys, 2 bottles, 5 Fascist soldiers outside a hotel in Naples serenading five American girls peeping from behind lace curtains . . . . A peasant woman in a field holding a child on her shoulders so that he could see over the wheat to the setting sun . . . . In the Cathedral at Agrigenti: a letter written by the devill
...poisonous to insects and has been spreading the news to other entomologists by word of mouth. Dr. Haber recommends that a spray of Epsom salt in water be used against Mexican bean beetles. J. H. Hawkins of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station advocates this Epsom salt spray against wheat wireworms. The Frings believe the spray "could be used safely on many vegetables and fruits...
...Hall-the Hall of Chicago's Harris, Hall & Co.-the Bond Club last week turned out in full force. In a good-tempered reply to the Douglas broadside Banker Hall keyed his speech to the general thesis: "Always it is important not to kill a lot of fine wheat in an effort to stamp out a few weeds."As to the value of long-established banker-client relationships, Banker Hall quoted Britain's famed McMillan Report to the effect that what Old England needed was'not less but more co-operation between finance and industry along...
...things it does. John Meade, tycoon extraordinary, plays with natural resources as he does with the little country lass's heart--he is frank in his admission that his work is swindle by business technique, and he scorns to replant forests he devastates. When he shifts from lumber to wheat, he runs against a dust storm, the governor of the state who reminds him of his responsibility for the storm, and a farm movement led by the girl he has jilted. He is shot by a dispossessed farmer,--but not killed; he repents, and will, of course, live happily ever...