Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railway traffic was at a standstill. When high winds swept the dust Eastward Kansas City had night at midday and people walked the streets with handkerchiefs tied across their faces. How great was the crop damage remained largely a matter of guesswork. Oklahoma grimly reported that 50% of the wheat in the Western part of the State was ruined. An Oklahoman was said to have fainted when a drop of rain fell on his head, to have been revived only when two buckets of sand were thrown in his face...
Again the theory of AAA has been struck by another mighty blow, the recent Western dust-storm. So serious is the situation that the AAA was forced yesterday to give up completely its stubbornly cherished wheat reduction program. Although the government will continue to pay farmers for crop reduction, the clause providing for limitation will not be enforced...
...crass stupidity of continuing the policy up to yesterday seems almost incredible. Last year's drought, predicted months in advance by students of metreology who had discovered a five-year period of abnormal rain-fall, reduced wheat production to a point which made even the AAA's effort appear puny by comparison. Because of the drought and government "planning" any surplus was expected to be negligible. Havoc wrought by the recent dust storm, coupled with continued government reduction, has now made any real surplus impossible and a shortage probable. High- or wheat prices, all ready reflected in the Chicago grain...
...Sales for the first day were 14,000 bbl. at from $1.18 for July delivery to $1.25 for June delivery. Gasoline sold at from 5.78? to 5.98? per gal. Trading in oil and gasoline brought the number of commodities bought & sold on U. S. Exchanges to 33. The others: wheat, corn, rye. oats, sugar, coffee, cotton, silk, rubber, hides, butter, eggs, copper, zinc, tin, lead, rice, barley, lard, ribs, provisions, potatoes, cotton seed, flour, hay, flaxseed, millseeds, cocoa, wool, tops, grain sorghums, sugar bags...
...Such subject races as the Tahitians squeeze with docility. Not so the Arabs of French African Tunisia and Algeria. Nearly two years ago Tunisia's Resident General Marcel Peyrouton warned: "If Tunisia is to be saved, France must help. The protectorate must have the power to export wines, wheat and oils. . . . If we lose Tunisia our whole establishment in North Africa will be imperiled...