Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tobacco stocks went up with the outlawing of processing taxes and prospective refunds of impounded levies. Since the Supreme Court's decision strengthened the case against the Public Utility Act, power stocks also rose sharply. Shares in farm machinery and mail order companies declined. Cotton spurted, then sagged. Wheat did the same. Sugar broke badly. But allowing for innumerable and inevitable readjustments, the average U. S. businessman hailed the AAA decision as even better news than the death of the Blue Eagle last June...
...price of wheat was about $1 per bu., virtually the same as at the end of 1934. Cotton at 11½? per lb. was nearly 1? cheaper. Copper cost 8¼? per lb., up nearly 2?. Coffee at 8? per 1b. was down 2½?. Hogs at $9.20 per cwt. were...
...kitchen itself one corner is devoted to pastry, with a large electric dough mixer and a row of enormous cans on casters labelled "Bread Flour," "Cake Flour," "Whole Wheat Flour." Along one side stands the new, 24-ft. electric stove with two ovens, each capable of baking 40 loaves of bread or roasting 125 lb. of beef at a time. Mrs. Roosevelt was particularly pleased with a steam table called a "Thermotainer," as big as an emperor's sarcophagus, for keeping food hot. Another Thermotainer resembling a heavy, chromium riling cabinet on small balloon tires is used to deliver...
Drought and Depression cost Farmer Campbell $600,000 from 1929 to 1934, cut his wheat plantings to 20,000 acres. They also gave him time to think. Through long Montana winters he saw his expensive machinery and skilled workmen standing idle. Why not, he asked himself, scatter crops in other climates, harvest the year round by sending his machines and men after the sun? Matching his equipment, experience and Government credit rating with outside money, Tom Campbell leased 14,000 fertile, irrigated acres in San Joaquin Valley. When his caravan arrives this week, he plans to begin planting...
...Everyone cannot raise hogs, cotton, corn or wheat." Many a socialite Philadelphia matron at her breakfast table goggled as she read these words addressed to her. Then, reading on, she found she was being invited by Mrs. Walter M. Newkirk to join the "Potato Protest Planters...