Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dakotas. Now came Clinton W. Gilbert, seasoned correspondent for the Republican New York Evening Post, with an eye-witness report that Minnesota was "in the balance." Party lines are almost invisible in the Northwest but Correspondent Gilbert thought he could perceive underlying reasons: the low price of wheat, the absence of the religious and social-eligibility issues; the wetness of the cities; Smith's popularity; race feeling; the G. O. P.'s opposition to Senator Shipstead, who seeks re-election as a Farmer-Laborite; the Democrats' shrewdness in withdrawing their candidate for Senator, to give Senator Shipstead...
...Council made a full and specific explanation to German farmers over the radio, warning them against U. S. barley. The hogs developed the colic, it was explained, because the grain was tainted with a poisonous fungus, known to scientists as gibberella sanbinetti and to the U. S. farmers as "wheat scab...
...Sheridan, Wyo., tariff was the topic again. Campaigner Curtis, his 68-year-old voice grown husky from daily exercise out doors, recited-"Bacon, hams, buckwheat, cattle, corn, cream, eggs, hogs, lambs, lard, milk, potatoes, rye, sheep and goats, wheat and wool"—free list of the Underwood (1913) law, the law Nominee Smith mentioned favorably in his acceptance speech...
...Wheat. Renick William Dunlap, Acting Secretary of Agriculture, warned farmers not to sell their wheat crop too hastily. The northern hemisphere is raising 2,873,000 bushels of wheat this fall. This is a trifle more than last year. But the world's rye crop is 92,000,000 bushels less than last year; the potato crop will be less; Russia probably will have no wheat to export; people are demanding more wheat (as flour) than ever before...
...days after the great Dr. Hideyo Noguchi died in Africa (TIME, May 28) under the hot sun of northeastern Japan a woman was spading her wheat fields. Her hands were squarish; the palms rough, the backs faintly ridged with thin veins. Her face, rugged and serene, showed her 50 odd years...