Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with week after week of drying wind and blazing sun, everyone was talking of 1934, the year of the Great Drought. In both 1930 and 1934, reported the U. S. Weather Bureau, "the situation was not nearly so critical at the end of June. . . . Pasture lands, hay, oats, spring wheat and truck crops have been hardest hit. Very little pasture is now available between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. . . . Livestock shipments are becoming heavy because there is no pasture or water...
...sociological risk of moving families wholesale off their ruined acres. By week's end rain had revived the cot ton, tobacco and spirits of the South, but for most of the West there was no relief, no prospect of relief. With some 100,000,000 bushels of wheat burned away, crop statisticians last fortnight gave up all hope that the U. S. would this year get back to exporting a large wheat surplus for the first time since 1931. The Department of Agriculture last week reported the smallest world wheat surplus in nine years. Modifying its crop reduction-soil...
...ever nominated for the Presidency.- "Hyah, Alf!" cried they as Nominee Landon appeared on the platform, grinning and waving, leaning down to pump outstretched hands. "It's mighty nice of you to come down to the station," drawled he to some. With others he exchanged news about the wheat crop or the grasshopper plague. By bedtime thousands of Kansans had been convinced that Alf Landon was still the same plain, friendly, likeable fellow he had always been...
Died. Arthur William Cutten, 65, Chicago grain speculator, "Little Giant of the Wheat Pit"; of heart disease; in Chicago. Last month he retired from the Board of Trade, after the Supreme Court reversed his suspension by the U. S. Grain Futures Administration on a charge of holding 116,000,000 bu. of undeclared wheat futures...
Signing of the measure last week passed unnoticed by the commodity markets affected. Indeed, cotton went above 12? per Ib. for the first time since last January; wheat closed the week with a 6? gain at 94? per bu. President Robert P. Boylan of the Chicago Board of Trade diplomatically announced: "Directors of the Board of Trade have no reason to anticipate other than a fair and reasonable administration...