Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...places rain would save the remainder of the corn crop. If it kept up, forage crops could be sown in ruined grain fields to help feed cattle during the winter. If it kept up still longer, it might replenish the subsoil moisture enough to make possible a good winter wheat crop next year...
...bread there would be just about enough, thanks to the wheat carry-over to make up this year's crop shortage. Where a family ate ten white potatoes at a meal last winter, they will probably have to get along with nine this year. But they can make up on tomatoes, which are more plentiful than usual. Milk will be scarcer and citizens will have to get along with 16 lb. of butter on their yearly bread instead of the 18 lb. to which they are accustomed. Meat will prove the major food problem, not everywhere at once...
Pink-cheeked from cruising in and out of Norwegian fjords, Robert Worth Bingham, President Roosevelt's wispish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was able to take the gavel with the consent of his doctors when the International Wheat Conference convened last week in London...
...wreck of the World Economic Conference last year the International Wheat Conference salvaged and signed an export quota agreement which acts of the Almighty have greatly assisted its signatories to keep (TIME, Sept. 11). Of the Big Four signatories?U.S., Argentina, Canada and Australia?only Argentina has wholly escaped the searing blight of drought, and last week only Argentina had broken her agreement, exporting 34,000,000 more bushels of wheat than the 110,000,000 she accepted as her limit. Even so drought has struck savagely enough to keep the Big Four from exceeding their combined quota...
...This is a solid achievement to the credit of the international wheat agreement!" cried genial John I. McFarland, manager of the Canadian Wheat Pool. Other delegates saw no reason to contradict him. The nation which, on a percentage basis, had most flagrantly broken its pledge happened to be the Conference's host last week, hence could not in decency be flayed. Solemnly His Majesty's Government gave its word last year "not to encourage any extension of the area sown," then went blithely ahead paying subsidies to wheat growers in Great Britain with the result that the Kingdom's acreage...