Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Youngstown, Bethlehem. Reloading at Toledo and Sandusky they returned, carrying coal from the bituminous fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, to the industries of Detroit, Milwaukee, Duluth and the Northwest. From Duluth and from the gigantic grain elevators of Fort William and Port Arthur, they carried Minnesota and Saskatchewan wheat to Buffalo and Montreal. At Alpena and Calcite, Mich., they loaded limestone for Chicago and Buffalo...
...father, William Andrew Feller of Van Meter, Iowa (pop. 410). Frustrated in his own ambition to be a professional baseballer, Father Feller decided to realize it vicariously in his son. When Robert Feller was four, he and his father played catch behind the barn on the 360-acre Feller wheat farm. At 9, Robert Feller could throw a baseball 275 ft. At 13 he could do better than 350 ft.* At 14, he could pitch so fast that his father had a hard time catching the ball and once when the son's curve ball missed his glove...
...Pont flies are fed milk and bread. Their eggs are hatched in a "synthetic manure" of wheat bran, alfalfa meal, yeast and malt. Codling moths, scourge of apple growers, have a room to themselves, with long rows of little green apples, each hanging from its own hook. These insects are caught by nailing corrugated paper board to apple trees. The moth larvae think this material is bark, dig in. Their cages are hung with purple cellophane to simulate twilight. In the greenhouse basement is the Japanese beetle division. This handsome insect, whose U. S. infestation is spreading from a focus...
...pronouncement had by last week proved a notable success. His words touched off a world-wide break in commodities which left copper 1½? below its 17? -per-lb. high, lead off 1¼? (high: 7¾? per lb.), rubber off nearly 3#162; (high: 27#162; per lb.), wheat off 6#162; (high: $1.45). Most other staples tumbled proportionately, while the stockmarket took the deepest dive in nearly three years. At week's end such speculative stalwarts as U. S. Steel, Johns-Manville, Air Reduction, Anaconda Copper, International Nickel, International Harvester, were selling from 10 to 28 points...
...action on minor amendments. Aimed to stabilize the sick coal industry (see below), the bill lacks the labor provisions which caused Supreme Court invalidation of the original Guffey Coal Act, creates a National Bituminous Coal Commission to fix minimum prices, enforce a code of fair practices. ¶ Passed the wheat crop insurance bill which provides an appropriation of $100,000,000 to establish the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. through which wheat farmers, paying premiums in grain or cash, can insure their crops against natural hazards. If this pioneer legislation, which is concerned with the 1938 crop only, proves efficacious...