Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best metal is iron, the best vegetable wheat, and the worst animal...
...tall, suave, dark-haired Frenchman for whom wheat is assuredly "the best vegetable" stepped off the liner Paris at Manhattan, last week, and set smart U. S. citizens to thinking back to the origins of bread & cake. The French wheat-man-a close friend of Herbert Hoover, and of Georges Clemenceau-is M. Ernest Vilgrain, president of the famed Société des Grands Moulins de Paris. Unlike the Mills of the Gods, the Moulins de Paris grind swiftly, grind more flour than any other chain of mills in France, and grind out steady profits absolutely without the selling...
Probing more basically into the world wheat situation, Grand Meunier Vilgrain declared that French wheat kernels have been of poor quality since the War, and do not now contain a sufficient proportion of protein and gluten. This effect has been wrought by the post War shortage of man power on the farms, which has induced land owners to plant a species of wheat seeds giving a greater harvest with less care, but an inferior grade of wheat. For this reason the Grands Moulins de Paris bought 10,000,000 bushels of prime U. S. wheat for milling, last year...
Further researches revealed to Mr. Brand that Mr. Hoover "saw fit to manipulate the buying forces" during the War, preventing farmers from getting more than $2.20 per bushel for wheat when "otherwise the price would have been $5 to $10 per bushel...
Speeding off to Milwaukee, Candidate Reed assailed Candidate Hoover for Wartime wheat-price fixing. "That distinguished expatriate," he called his party's foeman...