Word: grained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abenakis, paddled this stream in their canoes long before white men came with sloops and schooners, and all the modern devices for safety on the waters. He saw the waterfront of Portland, a city set on an hill, and a commercial center of no mean import, with its huge grain elevators of the Grand Trunk, its docks full of freight steamers of grain and of and lumber, and its fleet of ferryboats plying out to the islands in Casco Bay. It was like a miniature New York...
...since Thomas Montgomery Howell tried unsuccessfully to corner corn six years ago has the Chicago grain market witnessed such a knockdown battle as took place last week. Though the nation's corn bins will soon overflow with the biggest corn crop since 1932, corn supplies last week were very low because last year's carryover was the smallest of this century. With deliveries of September corn futures due on Sept. 30, longs had the best opportunity in many a harvest moon to soak shorts...
With corn prices up 21? in 15 days to $1.1 6 a bu. it became apparent that shorts could not cover their obligations in time except at the longs' terms. Farmers National Grain Corp., leading U. S. grain co-operative and a leading short, formally complained to the Commodity Exchange Administration, charging "major manipulation." C.E. A. Chief J. W. T. Duvel cracked back with a stinging rebuke : "Every time there is a price rise or fall, there is an outcry from those who lose money." Two days later, however, having already tripled margins and taken the unusual step...
Ridden by heavy taxes and a feudal system of landlordism, pinched by the British corn laws (which put a high tariff on imported grain, in favor of England's home-grown wheat), the Irish had been reduced to practical subsistence on the potato, and when that crop failed whole counties were left literally foodless. Governmental remedial machinery was slow, graft-ridden, stupidly conceived. While the famine lasted. 21,770 people died of starvation, the total Irish mortality for the five years that ended in 1851 was close upon a million. The two most important results were: a desperate stiffening...
...similar situation occurred last July when potent Cargill Grain Co. held the long interest, and potent Farmers National Grain Corp. the short. At the last minute Farmers suddenly pulled 500,000 bu. of previously invisible corn out of the hat, gave Cargill a severe drubbing as the price fell 27?. Last week brokers suspected that Cargill was out to get even. However, there was little chance that a serious squeeze would materialize, for the Secretary of Agriculture has power to extend trading to prevent such things. Last week the Commodity Exchange Administration was visibly disturbed, uttered warnings about manipulation...