Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hendrik Shipstead, called by his enemies " the duck hunting dentist," Senatorial sidekick and Farmer-Labor brother of "Magnavox" Johnson, left the wheat fields of Minnesota and went to Washington. In attendance on him as aide-de-camp, wearing military uniform, was Adjutant General Rhinow of Minnesota, smoothing the "hard road of travel for the son of the soil...
...crude and refined oils in the California and Mid-Continent fields this Spring led to heavy overproduction. Prices declined, but the fall was kept orderly by the Standard Oil companies, with the view of stabilizing the situation. The farming states, devoted as they are to plans for stabilizing wheat, could see no virtue in employing similar methods in any other industry, and Governor McMaster of South Dakota gained considerable applause when he purchased with state funds some 160,000 gallons of gasoline from a hard-pressed refiner, and offered it for sale at 16¢. At once the Standard of Indiana...
Apart from the likelihood of Government interference with railroad rates this Winter along the lines suggested by the statesmen of the wheat belt, the railroads seem due to have unusual prosperity. During the last few years money has been freely placed in new equipment and maintenance of way, which has tended to lower operating costs. Moreover, the current freight car loadings continue even through the Summer slackness to run at almost record figures, with yet heavier traffic anticipated by everyone for the Fall. Thus far, too, the railroads have handled a tremendous year's business with ease and comparatively...
Gods have ambrosia for breakfast. Kings, presumably, have tarts. Presidents, New England Presidents, have whole-wheat and whole-rye cereal. This was the breakfast order that President Coolidge sent to the chef of the New Willard Hotel, his temporary Washington home. The Willard had none. Washington had none. But the Department of Agriculture's experimental station at Arlington, Va., obligingly cut and thrashed a little wheat. Virginia farmers furnished rye. Mixed 50-50, the new dish was prepared at the Willard, a breakfast fit for a President...
Since last month's report, the estimate of Winter wheat has been reduced by 18,000,000 bushels to 568,000,000 bushels?the lowest since 1913 excepting in the years...