Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accordance with the "flexible" provision of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law, the President raised the duty on wheat from 30c to 42c a bushel and on wheat flour from...
...That the principal competing country in the case of wheat, wheat flour and mill feeds is the Dominion of Canada...
...Adopted a resolution by Senator La Follette, Republican of Wisconsin, call-ing for an inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission into the profits of bakers and flour millers in relation to the high price of bread and the low price of wheat...
...credit can save the Northwest wheat belt, it will be saved. A fortnight ago the President called a conference of bankers and others at Washington to consider the financial difficulties of the Northwest (TIME, Feb. 18). The bankers proposed a $10,000,000 corporation to aid in refunding the farm debts of the threatened section. Last week the bankers reassembled in Chicago to announce subscriptions to the capital stock of the organization. The regional allotment for raising the capital...
Anderson is definitely associated with Chicago and its literary circle. Perhaps he has been somewhat pampered by that fond parental influence. But his is a remote and gloomy influence, springing, alas, more from translated Russian novels than from the drama indigenous to Middle West wheat fields and the strenuosities of the stockyards...