Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wheat was the Board's primary problem. Between the Board and that crop, the harvest of which was moving north out of Kansas at the rate of 25 miles per day, a hard-driven race had developed. The Board's first aim was to interpose its relief machinery before this year's wheat crop heaps up on last year's carry over and again depresses prices. A scant two months remained in which to erect dikes against the grain flood. In that time a wheat advisory council had to be named by the Board. The council...
Last week President Hoover was still searching for a wheat representative on his Farm Board and having a hard time finding someone satisfactory to the varying shades of political opinion in that major branch of husbandry. When Chairman Legge accepted his appointment, he was in a Kansas wheat field, watching the progress of the harvest, pondering the great problem that lay ahead of his Board...
Last week the Great Question on many a farm throughout the land was: Will there be federal relief for this year's crops? Wheat men, dubious of such relief this season, pricked up their ears at a suggestion from North Dakota's Senator Nye that the U. S. should buy up 50 or 100 million bushels of surplus wheat, ship it to famished China as a gesture of goodwill...
...been the U. S. Hide & Leather industry during the first quarter of 1929. Hides would sell at 19½?, then would come a period of stagnation, then trading would reopen at 16½?. there would be another stagnant period, then another reopening at 15½?. It was like a Wheat Market which opened only one day a week, and a falling market in which lack of continuous trading made it difficult to get out from under on future contracts that would result in a loss...
...wheat recovery was accompanied by rises in corn, oats and rye. It also aided the Manhattan stock market, which opened strong in a day of light trading. As far as permanent relief of the wheat situation was concerned, however, it was felt that only a major crop scare in spring wheat would result in continued rising prices. It has been estimated that there will be a world carry-over of 500 million bushels on July...