Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than princely might are the heels of Signer Benito Mussolini, and last February they left a depression upon numerous clods as he plowed and sowed personally a small field of wheat on his farm near Forli, in the foothills of the Apennines. The iron features of Il Duce seemed those of a stern husbandman as he guided his old-fashioned plow drawn by two white oxen past purring cinema cameras; but to relieve and humanize the drama little Bruno, his younger son, straddled one of the oxen. Not until last week, however, did newsgatherers learn the impressive details...
...World Wheat Pool Conference. As so often happens to movements of profound significance and wide import, the world conference at Kansas City, Mo., last week of 200 men carrying on great wheat pools received little mention in the daily press. Nine western states of this country already have wheat pools in operation.* Their representatives were at Kansas City. So too were chiefs of the pools of Canada, Australia, Russia, Italy. From South America, Great Britain and elsewhere came messages approving the aims of this conference?to control the price throughout the world of wheat produced by no matter what country...
Their intention is by no means chimerical. Russia already has a perfect monopoly of wheat sales, and in two years will be ready to export 100,000,000 bushels yearly, said its representative, Saul G. Bron...
Colin H. Burnell of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, gloated: "The Canadian wheat pool enrolled 138,000 farmers and handled 212,000,000 bushels of Canadian grain last year, or more than 56%. It is the largest grain handling organization in the world. It owns 700 country elevators and several terminals. The total assets...
...studied vitamin E, whose effect on sterility Drs. Herbert M. Evans and K. S. Bishop of the University of California discovered little more than a year ago (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926). The presence of vitamin E in the body permits fecundity; its absence causes sterility. It occurs in lettuce, wheat germs, alfalfa, egg yolks, liver...