Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...estimated corn crop this year is lower than the actual crop harvested in any year since 1914. The total wheat crop this year, as estimated, is fourth largest since 1914, being surpassed...
Corn is regularly the biggest crop in the U. S. although wheat and cotton attain more prominence in the headlines through their political significance...
...Department also estimates the spring wheat crop at 266,000,000 bu., and the winter crop at 855,000,000 bu., or a total of 1,509,000,000 bu., compared with 1,299,823,000 as an actual crop in 1923. Thus the wheat farmer will not only receive a higher price per bushel, but he will have this year a larger crop to sell. Thus his prosperity this year is beyond doubt...
...south through the shining levels of the air, and south still after the sun had gone down and the moonlight poured on its silver sides, dimming the lights that pricked out along the gondolas. At dawn it passed Atlanta, turned west, crossed the Mississippi at Greenville. Cotton lands and wheat lands, sage lands and deltas. As the sun was sinking again, it reached Fort Worth, where it was moored within half a mile of the only plant in the world which produces the helium that fills its belly. So was ended the first lap of the journey. The time...
...this exportable surplus, about 150 million bushels will go to continents other than Europe. According to recent estimates, Europe will need between 554 and 460 million bushels of wheat in 1924-25. Disappointing harvests have occurred in France, Russia and Poland, as a result of excessive rainfall. The European demand is accordingly bidding for wheat, and the result is a buoyant and rising grain market...