Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a recurrent journalistic fable that grains of wheat taken from ancient Egyptian tombs have grown into new wheat plants. Scientists take no stock in it. The maximum length of time in which wheat grains retain their germinating power is well established as about 25 years. In cases where people have made the experiment in good faith and obtained positive results, it is probable that they were bubbled by fakers who sold them modern wheat for ancient...
From the wide open spaces of Minnesota, where grow corn and wheat and financial reforms, comes a new proposal for peace upon earth with the dollar sign as the herald angel. The spokesman is Senator Shipstead, the Farmer-Labor member of the Foreign Relations Committee. His proposition is to establish control by the Federal Government of all American banking and investment credit in the international field as a means of promoting world peace...
...financial markets have come to another halt. The stock market, digesting recent price-advances, has proved irregular and less active, while sterling exchange has also lingered on its way back to par. The wheat market has experienced a severe but apparently speculative break below $2.00. Iron and steel production has mounted rapidly to what is already being called its peak for 1925 by business forecasters...
...adopted providing for an investigation of the American Tobacco Co. to determine similar facts and also whether there was a conspiracy to boycott tobacco growers' cooperatives. Senator Trammell of Florida proposed an inquiry into the rise in gasoline prices. A proposal has been made for an investigation in wheat and bread prices because of recent increases. Senator Howell threatens a similar inquiry into the railroad consolidations of the Van Sweringens. All these things would seem to indicate that there is to be a revival of "trustbusting...
...report published yesterday by the economic research bureau of Stanford University points to an entirely different cause. The international price of wheat has been higher than the American price. Until December the rates on Canadian and Argentinian wheat shipped to Europe was above the price in the United States. Wheat shortages in Europe have been drawing surplus crops from the rest of the world. If the European crops are heavy next fall, the American price will recede from the present high mark. The explanation of these fluctuations is due to economic factors...