Word: implements
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...acres of 60? wheat is the same as 50 acres of $1.20 wheat. A more captious, unfair cry was that Chairman Legge, onetime head of International Harvester Co., wanted to reduce U. S. farm production so foreign husbandmen could make big crops, buy more U. S. agricultural implements. Department of Commerce figures were adduced showing farm implement exports for the first six months of 1930 were $78,997,334 compared to $72,068,581 for the same period last year...
Governor Reed took a personal dig at Chairman Legge as onetime head of International Harvester Co. when he declared: "Is it fair, is it sound public policy to ask the wheat farmer to leave his land idle to permit an expansion of the agricultural implement trade in foreign countries so as to enable those countries to better compete with the American wheat farmer?" On the platform beside him Chairman Legge clamped his cigar, made no answer. When his turn to speak came he explained that the Farm Board had already sunk in wheat twice the crop's proportionate share...
Greatest Point Gainer: Auburn Auto- mobile; with U. S. Steel, Electric Bond & Share, Deere Implement as runners...
Last week, as the axe was being taken in an armored car to the annual ceremony, three young men posing as newshawks tossed a tear gas bomb into the procession, rushed the axe guards, made off with all but a small fragment of the precious implement during the mêlée. All of California's roadsters and all of her men scoured the roads leading out of Berkeley. But the sly Stanfordmen eluded them, got the axe home, hid it away. Next year Stanford's axe, unless a counter-raid is successful, will once more...
...agree to the bargain proposed by France (TIME, Feb. 24), that if the U. S. and Britain sign a pact guaranteeing French security the French delegation would cut their demand for a navy of 725,000 tons by 20%; 2) the President will not agree, in diplomatic language to "implement" the Kellogg Peace Pact, or, in plain English, to create mechanism for the purpose of making its pious pledge of peace enforcible...