Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heels of the temporary settlement with the U. S. of the dispute over the new French tariff schedule (TIME, Nov. 21), the Government decreed an increase in the duties on wheat from 18.20 francs per 200 pounds to 35 francs; and on frozen meats, which since 1914 have not been taxed, to 85 francs per 200 pounds...
...Grain. Wheat, most speculative commodity in financial trading, whipsawed at the hands of speculators last week. Many bushels were sold but fluctuations were not wide and the price closed for December delivery at 1.24 ¾. Canadian farmers rushed grain to ports to beat deliveries of U. S. growers, and storage elevators of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railroads nearly burst to accommodate receipts. In one day Canadian Pacific elevators accepted 4,454,425 bushels exceeding all previous records...
...content with waging a ruthless "battle of wheat" (TIME, Oct. 24), Premier Benito Mussolini ordered a "national rice day" for Nov. 1. Apparently, on that day all good Italians must live like Chinese-on rice. For the edification of the spaghetti-eating populace, Il Duce explained that rice day was in reality a supporting attack in the "battle of wheat," which is being fought to make Italy a cereally self-sufficient country, by reducing the imports of that grain. Rice, he went on, can be raised in Italy on large tracts of land now available...
...battle of wheat' cannot be won in only one year. But the possibility of winning it exists. Nobody now doubts that it is possible to increase the average yield per acre. Wheat must be raised wherever possible by intensive methods. Zones giving a high yield per unit of area must be generalized. Some people think it is possible to arrive at 100 quintals [five tons] per hectare [nearly two and a half acres] and I also believe that Italian agriculture can still advance far on the road to perfection...
...Premier then distributed $100,000 in prizes for the best results in growing wheat. Farmers and humble peasants, abashed but proud, marched on to a raised platform and there were kissed on both cheeks by Il Duce amid the plaudits of the populace...