Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina. Another South Carolinian, Franklin Roosevelt's good friend James F. Byrnes, jumped in with an amendment to the Third Deficiency Bill requiring a 12? loan on cotton. To get enough votes to ensure victory the Cotton Senators teamed up with the Wheat Senators, helped jam into the bill a 90? Government loan on wheat. Such a rampant combination in the Senate wrecked the plan for Congressional adjournment Saturday night...
...Last week a special Senate subcommittee investigating the price-pegging cotton and wheat operations of the late Federal Farm Board disclosed a loss of $344,000,000 (69%) of its $500,000,000 revolving fund in trying to buck the law of supply & demand...
...Generalissimo's trumpet call all his generals and their hundreds of thousands of unemployed soldiers would gladly come a-running. Anyhow even a small British loan (Chinese mentioned $25,000,000 last week) would come in as handy for current expenses as did the $50,000,000 cotton & wheat credit from the U. S. (TIME, Sept...
...accused Wade of the killing. Almost exposed, he assisted at Wade's lynching. Luce had a miscarriage. Leaving her with her horse-trading father. Clay rode on alone. He saw a countryside that had been opened to settlers dry up and drive them out; he worked in the wheat fields and on a Columbia River steamboat, met the six-fingered Indian friend of his boyhood just before the Indian was murdered. Deciding that Luce's father had killed the Indian. Clay set out in search of him, met Luce again, learned that, for reasons he found understandable...
...Stefan, impressionable baker who could not endure the sight of hungry people looking through his window at freshly baked bread, escapes to the country where the "soft and quiet undulation of the wheat fields" gives him a momentary vision of unmeasured miles of wheat, of stores of food so enormous that no one need go hungry...