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...million bushels storage capacity for wheat. Its location assures Commander-Larabee of a supply of Gulf grain and cheap water transportation to the Atlantic Seaboard. With the addition. Commander-Larabee has 14 flour mills with a 40,000-bbl. capacity and storage space for 30,000,000 bu. Commander-Larabee plans to double the Sherman mill's storage capacity and is building a 1,000,000-bu. terminal at Wellington, Kan. It also plans a new 2,500-bu. flour mill at either Sherman or Fort Worth. Largest company in the U. S. is General Mills with...
Wheat gyrated back into the news last week with the Department of Agriculture's first estimate of the 1932 winter crop. Where 787,000,000 bu. of winter wheat were harvested in the bumper year of 1931, this year's crop was forecast at 458,000,000 bu., a drop of 42%. The Great Plains had had a dry autumn, a dry winter, a dry spring. Planters were abandoning their winter wheat acreage in the face of drought. The economic consequences of last year's overproduction probably had more to do with a reduced yield than...
Because his wife, the former Didi H. Muus, is Norwegian, Mr. Cohu built for her at Southampton a summer home like a Norwegian mountain house. A Norwegian architect designed it, Norwegian craftsmen were imported to make the wood carvings. Mrs. Cohu named the house Gissa Bu. Her husband, who has never been to Norway, says he does not know what Gissa Bu means...
...Bu = dwelling. Norwegians in Manhattan last week could agree on no translation of Gissa. Mrs. Cohu was absent in Norway...
...With President Hoover's approval 14 carloads of Government-owned wheat rumbled out of Omaha for South Dakota -first batch of 5,000,000 bu. to be distributed there free to the needy by the Red Cross. The railroads handled the consignment gratis. Drought and grasshoppers necessitated this Federal relief...