Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disarm themselves. The recent crisis was useful because it clearly showed who Fascismo's real friends and foes are. The party does not want lukewarm adherents who will cast it off. The new Directorate which the Council meets to elect must be strong and disciplined." Italy's wheat crop has failed. This was evidenced when Roman bakeries started to bake the inferior war bread - now called pane popolare and sold for 1 lira 20 centesimi per kilogram (6 cents). The price of white bread advanced to 2 lire per kilogram (10 cents), owing to the advancing price...
...fact remains that apparently the world crop will be considerably smaller, that prices will consequently be higher, that it is within the range of possibility that last year's exceedingly bad season for the U. S. wheat-farmer may be followed this year by an equally good season...
...rise of wheat prices, if it continues, or even if it is but sustained, leads to a whole chain of circumstances. It means much better times in the farming region of the Northwest. It means much improvement in banking conditions, because banks will be able to liquidate their frozen farm loans. It may mean the difference between success and failure to the newly-organized, tremendous cooperative grain marketing project of the farmers. It means greater revenues for the Northwestern railroads and their stockholders...
...past week saw no new devel- opments in the U. S. There was a continuation and even a deepening of tendencies already recognized. Wheat continued to soar in one of the most sensational recoveries on record. Farmers were cheerful. Rural bankers breathed easier, and bank failures in the West were halted. Mail-order houses, farm implement people and others who sell to farmers reported a distinct turn for the better. North and middle west- ern roads were optimistic because of increased freights, not only of grain going east but heavier farmers' purchases going west. In the Atlantic states, business...
...equal amount of preferred stock and $1,000,000 of common stock is sold to real dirt farmers. Meantime a board of directors has been chosen for the new company. It includes Oscar E. Bradfute, President of the American Farm Bureau Federation; W. J. Brown, President of the American Wheat Growers, Inc.; H. L. Keefe, President of the United States Grain Growers, Inc.; Fred A. Mullage, President of the Illinois Farmers' Elevator Association, and several others of like experience. Among these men is Gray Silver. It is Gray Silver who has been chosen to head this tremendous project...