Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left Exeter (1888) and Harvard (1892), to become a good reporter (and later, a good copy reader) on the New York Tribune. And why in 1902, he could bring order out of the chaos of an importing and exporting house which became Lamont, Corliss & Co. (agents for Cream of Wheat, Rainbow Dye, Pond's Extract, O'Sullivan's, Peter's Chocolate), of which he is now chairman. It is why the late Henry P. Davison called him, in 1903, to be secretary-treasurer of the Bankers Trust (Lament: "All my business life I have been borrowing money...
...This wheat loan will be doled out to coÖperatives through the National Farmers' Grain Corporation, organization of which was definitely completed last week...
...wheat market, to the Farm Board's large concern, has been on the down grade of late. In the Chicago pit last week prices for December delivery slid from $1.25 per bu. to $1.13, recovered somewhat, closed at $1.23 per bu. Last July the same wheat stood...
Federal Farm Board Chairman Legge announced that wheat prices were too low, ascribed this condition to two causes: 1) "Rapid and disorderly movement which is putting a large part of the year's supply on the market in a short time"; 2) "The unprecedented liquidation of industrial stocks and shrinkage in values within the last few days" (see page...
...General Electric, 47; Eastman Kodak, 41; Otis Elevator, 60; New York Central, 22; Montgomery Ward, 15; U. S. Industrial Alcohol, 39; Standard Gas & Electric, 40, etc. etc. etc. ... In Rio de Janeiro the coffee market already frightened (TIME, Oct. 21), closed altogether. But in Chicago a bushel of wheat was worth 3 cents more...