Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...production of grain. They asked for lower railroad freight rates on grain and flour and for an extra session of Congress, called at least a fortnight in advance of the regular session (which starts Dec. 3), to pass appropriate legislation. They did not ask a fixed price for wheat or a higher tariff on that product...
...price stabilization through an organization under Governmental direction which will have the power, through cooperation on the part of the farmers, to guide them each year in determining the amount of acres to be seeded and thus (so far as is possible through acreage control) limit the production of wheat to such a point that there will be a proper domestic market for same...
Statistics show, however, that during 1922 there was produced in the world 531,000,000 bushels less wheat than was the average production during the period...
...seeing the motion he had long advocated in the House of Commons become law, and only this present year the French Senate changed its opinion on the matter several times. Like all new ideas it was difficult to grasp. Farmers could not see how cows could be milked or wheat grown if the clock were altered and mothers could not understand how it would be possible to get their babies to sleep. This antagonism to new ideas is not new. The conception of a non-stationary engine was impossibly difficult to the physicist of the early days of the steam...
...overflowing national wheat...