Word: hundredweight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of a bearish Government forecast, farmers had expected their hogs to fetch bad prices all summer. But last week they were selling as high as $5.15 a hundredweight against $3.40 on June 1. Because farmers have needed money so badly that they have sold their hogs right along it was expected that no sudden rush of pigs to market would upset the hog-cart. In Iowa where 13 million hogs are born and fattened every year, the rise from June 1 to last week's average price made a difference of $40,000,000 figuring each...
...District Court, New York City, to dissolve the Sugar Institute, whose 50 member-corporations refine more than 85% of the nation's granulated sugar. The petition charged that the Institute had induced beet sugar refiners to restrict competitive activities, had maintained the price of cane sugar 20? per hundredweight higher than refined beet sugar...