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...Farm Board is now carrying approximately 130,000,000 bu. of wheat, 2,000,000 bales of cotton, all bought high above the current market in an attempt to sustain domestic prices. These operations have put the Board $100,000,000 into...
Senate Work Done. The Senate of the U. S. last week: ¶ Passed the War Department appropriation bill, amended to provide for distribution of 20,000,000 bu. of the Farm Board's wheat and $5,000,000 for Drought relief; sent it to conference...
...followers accused him of "going White House"-defiantly flung his party's challenge. He announced that he had no other choice than to tack his relief amendment onto all subsequent supply bills, unless Congress would immediately vote $50,500,000 worth of relief legislation, plus 20,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat to feed the hungry. Senator Robinson listed his requirements as follows...
...below the announced figure the Government will: 1) up the tariff on foreign wheat; 2) reduce the legal proportion of foreign flour in French bread; or 3) cancel wheat import licenses. So successful has been this system that last week French farmers rejoiced in a price of $1.72 per bu. of wheat, while at Chicago the price hovered around 80? in Canada 57? But so peculiar are French politics that last week the highly satisfactory price of wheat in France caused the fall of M. Theodore Steeg's "Cabinet of Concentration, Entente and Conciliation...
...Chamber of Deputies it was charged that Minister of Agriculture Victor Boret, who has upped the price of wheat in France 10?per bu. in the last month, did so with the prior knowledge of "speculators" (presumably friends...