Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visible domestic supply of wheat last week was 27,980,000 bushels, against 29,290,000 a fortnight ago and 49,089,000 last year...
...Eric the Red; Icelandic chief and settler of Greenland; also called "Leif the Lucky." Blown out of his course while returning from Norway in 1000 A. D. to Christianize Greenland, he reached a far-western land where "self-sown" wheat grew, and vines. He called it Vineland, later exploring it, wintering there-in southern Nova Scotia...
...Congressional notables assembled at the White House about the breakfast table. There were Senators Curtis, Smoot, Wadsworth, McNary, Speaker Longworth and Representatives Madden, Tilson, Dickinson, Begg-the galaxy of Republican party managers and financial commanders in Congress- and the gist of what they had with their sausages and wheat cakes was the same as what the reporters had had without refreshments the day before...
Tariff. While the monopoly flurry was in progress, the Deputies still further antagonized foreign capitalists by voting 311 to 39 to increase the import duty on all merchandise entering France by 30%, except in the case of extra parts for agricultural machinery, paper pulp, wheat, sugar, coffee and cocoa...
...expect to spend the day right here in Cambridge singing Songs from Vagabondia in the best Carmen manner as I gayly trip to Emerson J with shredded wheat on my breast and waistcoat--to hear Professor Prescott lecture on the Principle of Integration. Then to counteract this I shall blossom forth amid the literary buds in Sever 28 where ten o'clock will find Professor Lowes discussing Shelley--a far from, integrated person--or was he? At least I know the story about the ladies and his crossing the room clad only in disremembrance...