Wheat price stabilization plan impacts futures and policy
The Farm Board plans to stabilize wheat prices after the 1930 crop through large on market purchases, likely by May 31, under new chairman James C. Stone and member Sam H. Thompson. Immediate market effects included a price drop on Chicago boards followed by a rally after the stabilization plan details.
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Omore
Federal Farm Board
Thompson
James C. Stone
Sam H. Thompson
Inois
Chicago Board of Trade
Stablization Corporation
Chicago
Borah
Watson
Indiana
McNary
Hoover
China
Fashionably Plaid Spring Wardrobe Shapes A Chic Collection
Cherie Nicholas outlines a spring wardrobe featuring plaid dresses and an accessory set including scarves or ascots, a plaid hat, and a plaid pocketbook. Emphasis on navy and white or brown and white plaid, fur trimmed coats, big square lapels, and adjustable collars, with gray tones dominating the color message.
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Shere
Paris
Milady
Cherie Nicholas
Snow Melting Trick Boosts Early Seedling Planting
The forest service uses black soil spread on snow to melt cover faster, advancing nursery and planting work by up to two weeks. Officials say the method could also speed home garden prep and other forestry tasks.
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United States Department
United States Department’ - ‘of Agriculture
Forest
Forest Service
Department
Co Operative Spraying Boosts Wisconsin Fruit Profits
Farm Journal reports Wisconsin growers using spraying rings of 8 to 10 farms with 800 to 1,500 trees raise profits. Each ring buys a sprayer, hires an operator, and applies six sprays yearly, with pruning and nitrogen. Apples sell for 1.50 to 2.50 a bushel, yields reach seven bushels per tree, net profits per farm rise to hundreds, and co operative buying lowers costs.
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The
Farm Journal
Wisconsin
Racine County
Hats and affection play out in a millinery scene
A wife in a millinery shop playfully persuades her husband to buy both hats by saying she loves the one most while choosing the other to please him. The lighthearted moment centers on shopping and affection.
First Used by Holmes Phrase Coined by Holmes
The expression mutual admiration society likely originated with Oliver Wendell Holmes and appears in his work The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
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Holmes
Mutual Admiration Society
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Autocrat
One Point of View He is happiest at peace at home
A reflective line extols happiness found in home life, claiming true contentment comes to both king and peasant who discover inner peace within their own residence. The verse treats home as a universal source of solace beyond status or power.
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Ayor
Jimmy Walker
New York
Franklin Roosevelt
Jimmy
Palm Springs
Calif
Tammany
State Senate
Assembly
Senate
Mastick
Westall
Westchester
William L. Ward
Westchester Repubican
New York City
al Smith
Raskob
Treasury Department
Mellon
Finland
Norway
Esthenia
Sweden
Latvia
Austria
Holland
Poland
Panama
Charles Francis Adams
Washington
Adams
Navy Department
William Y. Pratt
Joseph B. Reeves
Mark A. Bristol
Navy General Board
United States
Europe
Great Britain
France
Italy
Czechoslovakia
League of Nations
Germany
Rumania
Jugoslavia
Curtius
Berlin
The
Hague
Briand
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Ught
Ontagu
Norman
Bank of England
Hoover
India
Secreteurer Saday Aav UR
Brownell
American Smelting and ‘Refining Company
England
Indo-China
Ecretary of the
Treasury
Andrew W. Mellon
Richard B. Mellon
American Institute of Chemists
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
University of Pittsburgh
Western Newspaper Union
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Farm Board
Austro
German’ Customs Union
Edward W. Pickard
Sam H
Walker
Owen D. Young
Mayor Walker
John F. Curry
Federation of Labor
San Juan
Theodore Roosevelt
St. Thomas
Virgin Islands
Department of the Interior
Arizona
Norfolk
M. Norman
Wm. Green
Bayer
Miney -Buy
Hun
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