Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wheat trading pits a "pink ticket" is the receipt for grain purchased but undelivered...
What caused widest concern among farm cooperative leaders was the revelation by Chairman Legge of how his Board would handle future wheat loans: The Board would advance its funds to the National Farmers Grain Cooperative at 3½% which in turn would farm out in smaller loans to individual cooperatives, adding "a small additional charge," presumably 2% or 3%. In effect the cooperatives would be paying the same rate-6%-as private commission men for cash. Chairman Legge carefully explained that whatever profit the national cooperative made from the additional interest imposed would in the end go back...
...Wheat. "792,000,000 bushels . . . 902,000,000 in 1928. . . . Wheat prices have been substantially higher...
...Employment Service recruited 541,280 seasonal workers-cotton, apple, strawberry pickers, wheat, potato, sugar beet harvesters-also 18,291 general farm workers...
Agriculturally prolific, Nebraska today ranks third in corn production, second in winter wheat. It is developing a lusty sugar beet industry, is a leader in the nurture of cattle and hogs. Famed it is too for its unique and sightly "skyscraper" Capitol building at Lincoln, designed by the late, great Bertram Grosvernor Goodhue...