Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...water transportation system in the heart of the U. S. Of this, 3,800 mi. now have a channel six feet deep or better, leaving 5,000 mi. for U. S. development Chief tributaries for improvement: Illinois (Chicago-to-the-Gulf route), Missouri (high into the wheat country), Arkansas (west to the oil fields), Tennessee (through the coal lands). Time limit: five years...
...Federal Farm Board last week dipped deep into its capacious pocket and drew forth $100,000,000 for wheatmen throughout the land. It was Husbandry's biggest loan. If this sum were not enough to help cooperative associations stabilize the wheat market, the Board promised to ask Congress to advance more of its $350,000,000 credit still untouched...
...their nominations. The Comptroller's office at last opened its eyes to the Board's official existence and drew, three months late, its members' first pay checks. On the basis of the Senate vote, Samuel Roy McKelvie, onetime Governor of Nebraska and the Board's wheat member, was the least popular Hoover nominee. The President had searched longest to find a wheat man for his Board and Mr. McKelvie's was the last difficult appointment. Twenty-seven Senators voted against his confirmation. Their complaint was that he was not a real wheat farmer, that...
...wheat prices been stabilized? Chairman Legge explained that the Farmers' National Grain Marketing Corp. had been formulated within nine days of the Board's birth; that expensive storage facilities were lacking to stabilize wheat this year...
...Wheat. To the wheat-marketing associations engaged in organizing the National Farm Grain Growers Association, the Board expressed hope that they would hurry up, present a final plan for the Board to approve...