Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Economic discomfiture for a people is political discomfiture for a government. Spurred on by the agonized cry of the wheat farmers in the West, the Cabinet spent two sessions largely devoted to the question: How can the farmer be satisfied? The President wished an answer. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace prepared a report. And others, outside the Cabinet, visited the White House from time to time to offer suggestions...
...Problem. The U. S. is expected to eat about 584 million bushels of wheat this year. It is expected to produce about 821 million bushels of wheat. How is the difference of 237 million bushels to be prevented from drugging the market and dragging down the price of wheat? How is this to be prevented in years to come...
...audience. And yet it seems a curiously lifeless book. The characters seem shadowy and unsubstantial; the exact, neat detail, lacking in any real significance; the tale, twice-told. To your reviewer, coming, as it does after Mr. BritUng, Sonia, Le Feu, Three Soldiers, One of Ours and Through the Wheat, A Son at the Front appears like an exhibition of perfect waxworks, meticulously constructed, displaying every external appurtenance of life, but without a single spark of vitality...
Julius Howland Barnes of Washington, D. C., President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, wheat exporter and Wheat Director of the U. S. under President Wilson...
...Ours, her story of the War, which was awarded one of the Pulitzer Prizes last year, I did not care for. It is not nearly so wise a book as Edith Wharton's poignant A Son at the Front or Thomas Boyd's Through the Wheat. A Lost Lady, however, is a character study of strength and beauty. The story of a highstrung, attractive, weak woman, told as she is reflected in the lives of her various lovers,: is superbly wrought. I can think of no other picture of broken idealism so striking as that of young Neil...