Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some day the country will undoubtedly dig itself an adequate steamer channel connecting the Atlantic with its inland seas, the Great Lakes. The midwestern farmer wants it badly so that he can pocket some of the freight now paid on his wheat between Minnesota and Liverpool. The alert eastern and midwestern city dweller wants it, for in another 25 years there will be some 40 million more people in the country to congest traffic and consume food. Routes. New York State has the makings of such a channel in its barge canal* connecting Lake Ontario (at Oswego) with the Hudson...
Measures Passed: 1) A 100% increase in the duty on wheat: 2) A 50% increase in the duty on flour; 3) Legislation blocking the enactment of ultra-reactionary laws; 4) A law punishing blackmailers and blackmailees, if the latter allow themselves to be blackmailed; 5) The taking over by the Government of the Nishihara private loans to China; 6) The creation of a subsidy on domestic pig iron and steel; 7) Large educational and .small naval appropriations; 8) A tax on soft drinks...
...picks our peaches in Georgia and the South Atlantic States; who, a little later still, picks our strawberries in Maryland, and who, still later, spreads all over the country, winding up perhaps at «a construction camp in Oklahoma, a tomato cannery in Delaware or New Jersey, or the wheat harvest in the Dakotas...
...reaper, but the next year he sold seven, at $100 apiece. The family farm became a rural factory, turning out 29 machines in 1843, 50 in 1844. Then Cyrus McCormick bestrode his horse and rode into the Midwest. He saw the vast prairies, saw hogs turned loose in wheat that men had not time to harvest. He rode through Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Ohio and New York proclaiming the reaper, calling...
Probably the real difficulty in considering such jobs is the fact that there has never been any standard by which to sift the wheat from the chaff and determine which jobs are good and may be undertaken by a college man without fear and with certain hope of reward, and those which should be left untouched and not even considered...