Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drone. His name is William M. Jardine and his mind works like Herbert Hoover's. Both of them are "pluggers." A man must be a "plugger" who can produce a 120-page annual report on agriculture covering the entire field from "Swine Sanitation" to the "Nutritive Value of Wheat Bran...
...Year 1925-26. "Certain regions have suffered reverses, notably the cotton states, whose principal crop, produced in exceptional abundance, is selling at very low prices. Parts of the spring-wheat states have harvested a poor crop. Generally speaking, however, the position of agriculture is better now than it has been in any year since 1920. Livestock raisers, dairymen and winter-wheat growers have earned good returns, and underlying conditions in the Corn Belt have improved...
Lynn J. Frazier, 52, Senator from North Dakota, slow-moving, slow-speaking, is a real dirt farmer. He owns 480 acres of wheat in the Red River Valley and has never had a crop failure. In 1916 the embattled farmers and the Non-Partisan League elected him Governor of North Dakota. His round face beamed like a child with a new puzzle, but the farmers were pleased, so they sent him to the Senate in 1923. A radical at Washington, he is just a good, big farmer* out in the Red River Valley. Republicans who ousted him from the regular...
...Lake Superior level. These ships, long, round-topped whale-backs for the most part and peculiar to the Great Lakes, carry coal from Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky to ports of Lake Superior, the largest body of fresh water in the world. On the down voyage they haul wheat from Canada (Port Arthur and Fort William) and from the U. S. (Duluth), and iron ore from Lake Superior's southern shores. This commerce is immensely valuable and ship owners push their vessels to beyond the limits of the navigation season, which ends the first week in December...
...Meredith addressed the New York State Chamber of Commerce at its annual banquet. His cure for the farmers was no new bonanza - merely an old one, clearly outlined for action. He urged that a federal commission be authorized to fix and guarantee minimum prices on the wheat, corn, cotton, sugar crops and on the production of wool and butter. He suggested that his commission be composed of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, and four other members appointed by the President. Other farm relief plans have sought to take care of the crop surplus by government marketing...