The Grain Corporation and The Guaranteed Wheat Price

Wilfred Eldred

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1920, vol. 34, issue 4, 698-719

Abstract: Events of 1917: the Food Control Act, the guaranteed price, the "fair" price, 698. — The operations of the Grain Corporation in 1917–18, 699. — The guarantee extended to 1919, 704. — The Price Guarantee Act of March 4, 1919, 707. — Crop and prices of 1919, 708. — Expiration of the guarantee; plans for resumption of future trading, 715. — Relative advance in prices of wheat, flour, and bread since 1913, 717. — Financial outcome of the Grain Corporation's activities, 718.

Date: 1920
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