Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collegian nurses a desire to spend his summers abroad, going places and seeing things. Realizing this, the Canadian Government and the Canadian Pacific Railway have cooperated in inviting Oxford students to Canada in order that they may see England's American colony and also help harvest the Dominion's wheat crop...
...caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) were still the U. S. rule for trading in wheat, corn, rye, barley oats and like grains, then Armour Grain Co., or anyone, might play David Harum* to the detriment of farmers, millers or brokers. But the U. S. Department of Agriculture has long sought to keep grain transactions honest; and so Secretary William M. Jardine was "tremendously interested" last week to learn that Banker Edward Eagle Brown of Chicago, as arbitrator, had ordered the Armour Grain Co. to pay $3,000,000 to creditors of the now dissolved Farmers' Cooperative Grain Marketing...
...slugger, has left the St. Louis Cardinals to enter the costume of the New York Giants; Frankie Frisch, Fordham flash, will be a Cardinal instead of a Giant; veteran Eddie Collins will again strive for the Philadelphia Athletics after a lengthy interlude with the Chicago White Sox; Zack Wheat, another oldster, has joined the Athletics after years of service with the Brooklyn Robins; Eddie Roush has been traded by Cincinnati for George Kelley, former Giant; Burleigh Grimes, old Brooklyn pitcher, will throw for the Giants...
...price-fixing, for although the Farm Board will not declare the price of wheat to be so-and-so, it can control the price of wheat because it can control the supply. Rebuttal: It is merely price-stabilization, the cost of which is borne by the equilization fund...
...Campbell farms 100,000 acres without a single beast of burden and with few men. Machinery and mass do it. Today he farms an acre of wheat for $8. The Government standard for efficiency is $16.50. Following his example, he says all farming should be done by great corporations. Great corporations can get credit from banks which view the "farmer" with alarm. Great corporations can develop new inventions,* can watch markets, can hire the efficient and fire the inefficient...