Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monthly crop report of the Department of Agriculture was released three days early to give relief officials a clearer picture of the catastrophe. On the basis of June 1 estimates the U. S. would have its shortest wheat crop since 1893, not more than 500,000,000 bu. of winter and spring wheat. The winter wheat estimate was 61,000,000 bu. below the previous month's report. Oats, barley, rye and hay were correspondingly about 45% of normal. In spite of the week's rains, wheat was still breaking around $1 on the Chicago Board of Trade...
...munch on what was left. Five hundred farmers in three Wisconsin counties rounded up 26,000 head of half starved cattle, loaded them on stock cars, shipped them north to rented fields in the Lake Superior region. At Kansas City, George E. Farrell of AAA estimated that the wheat crop was being abandoned at the rate of 1,000,000 bu. a day, that growers were losing $1,000,000 daily. On the Chicago wheat exchange, wheat rose almost its 5? limit to $1.07. This meant money only for farmers in Texas and Oklahoma, on the drought's fringe...
...TIME, April 23). He did not attend his own hearing in the walnut-paneled, air-conditioned courtroom in the Federal Appraisers' Stores building. But a band of Texas farmers trooped in when the hearings began fortnight ago to see if they could find out "what becomes of our wheat and why we got 25? a bushel." They heard that: 1) Trader Cutten had been 11,000,000 bu. short of wheat in one day in 1926; 2) although the Government was not prepared to say Trader Cutten's activities had depressed the market, still when Trader Cutten...
Toulouse. Centre of the rich wheat growing plains of southern France, this city, like Marseilles, is definitely Socialist in sympathy. In a population of 200,000 there are only 250 accredited Royalists in Toulouse. Fascist-inspired riots in Paris will have no effect in Toulouse but it will be a different matter if the Socialists take to the streets in retaliation...
...nothing better to do, a Wall Street statistician sharpened his pencil, calculated the shrinkage in value of 100 listed issues. He found that the $4,136,000,000 paper loss since the Stock Exchange Control Bill was introduced last February would have: 1) bought all last year's wheat crop at $7.80 per bu.; 2) built 1,000,000 small homes; 3) bought more automobiles than were produced in the last two years; 4) employed 10,000,000 people ten weeks at $40 per week; 5) paid any government deficit of the last three years...