Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even editorial writers are prone to draw inadequate conclusions from the data in hand. Yesterday's issue of the Christian Science Monitor, aroused by advances in the price of wheat during the last six months, demands, in the current vogue for cooperation in marketing, the restriction of the profits and charges or conveying goods from producer to consumer. The fact that the price of wheat has been rising results inevitably in the conclusion that "someone s cheating." That "someone" must be found out and chastised...
...world needs wheat and, as long as it does, prices will go up," says...
...continued advance is attributed to unexpected purchases by Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Austria. The Orient has scrambled to buy the Australian wheat surplus, while that of Argentina has been scraped up by Portugal and other European countries. Most of the recent U.S. profits have accrued to speculators and traders rather than to the farmer who sold out freely between...
...soaring price of wheat, however gratifying to U.S. hollers and growers, is proportionally alarming to consumers. Labor in this country is prosperous enough not to feel the higher cost of bread unduly, but in Great Britain and the Continent?particularly perhaps in Austria ? the soaring cost of breadstuffs constitutes a serious economic, social and even political problem. With predictions of $2.50 wheat in the present movement, it is likely that this consumer situation may grow worse before it becomes better...
...Trader Cutten. Such a man he is. He lives on a dirt farm in La Grange, Ill. He always answers questions, though sometimes cryptically. He does not brag. Once he was a clerk in a hardware store. Now he is reported to have 10,000,000 bushels of wheat and rye at Great Lake ports...