Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognized that "the Black Hand," a baffling recurrent vine disease, has again touched with death the seemingly healthy grape-globes. The harvest, it is saul, will be burned. With bitterness the proprietors have noted that the coming of the pest has, as usual, been ironically concurrent with a bumper wheat crop in Europe. Scientists, vainly laboring in the vintners' laboratories at Rheims, are forced to admit once more that the ultimate riddle of champagne has not been solved...
Many railroads depend for their prosperity on the crops grown in their particular area. Thus there are "wheat" railroads, "cotton" railroads, "corn" railroads. But the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad is unique in depending for its destinies on the potato...
...destiny, of life and - death, that hung upon the event when he set out to Swampscott last June (TIME, June 29). Now he knows at least in part. For when he went, one of his train was Miss Margaret Carr, a cook who had flipped him many a fine wheat-cake and other delicacies. She returned to Washington two weeks ago still in the President's train. But last week it became known that she was leaving, going back to Swampscott, going back to marry Jerry Shea, who is chauffeur to the President's good friend Frank...
...abandonment to Germany of Warsaw and all Russian Poland. Transferred to the Serbian front, destroyed Serbia as a War factor and opened the road along which Germany poured munitions into Turkey. 2) 1916-Commanding the 9th and 11th Army Corps, operated successfully against Rumania, putting Rumanian resources of wheat and oil at Germany's disposal. 3) 1917-Directed the Teutonic offensive against Russia, which opened the way to the Black Sea on the collapse of the Russian armies. 4) 1918-Bullied Rumania into peace negotiations, in which she agreed to disband her armies and throw open the route...
...Manly has now taken alarm at the mergers of bread companies, and declares that a "bread trust" is now forming whose power is a national menace. Mr. Manly further states that profits in milling and breadmaking, being out of proportion to the increased price of wheat, are now "unconscionable", and are due to combinations in violation of the Sherman...