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On the recordOctober 24, 1929
A temporary drop in grain prices sympathetically with stock exchange prices usually happens but as the Department of Agriculture points out, the overriding fact in grain is that this year's world wheat harvest is estimated to be 500 million bushels less than that of last year, which will result in a very low carryover at the end of the harvest year.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Statement on the National Business and Economic Situation

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