Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crop condition of winter wheat last week was 59.4% of normal, lowest on record, and a harvest of only 389,000,000 bushels is expected (down 43.3% from this year) and the price of wheat soared from 87!^ Nov. 28, past the haloed $1 mark to hit a high of $1.05, a 26-month high...
...further drastic price rise is likely to be dampened by the 230,000,000 bushels carried over from the last crop year (of which approximately 175,000,000 bushels are in hock to the U. S. Government), but the chances of wheat staying around $1 were helped by news from Argentina that the wheat crop there was also in bad shape. Reason: late spring frosts. November in the Argentine is the equivalent of May in the U. S. Argentina's expected harvest is around 160,000,000 bushels, less than half of last year's crop...
...bankrupt Rock Island, Missouri Pacific, St. Louis-San Francisco, to the prosperous Union Pacific, Burlington, U. S. winter wheat adds up to a substantial portion of summer revenue. Largest of the winter wheat carriers is the Santa Fe. Wall Street Journal dug up some interesting figures on Santa...
...Wheat Tonnage Gross Revenue Net Income...
Times were tough in Walla Walla, Wash, (pop. 15,976) in the spring of 1932. The tariff wall which Canada hoisted in the early '205 had finally cut off the valley's chief market for fresh fruits, asparagus, tomatoes. Moreover, its wheat was going begging at 50? a bushel...