WHEAT DUMPED IN STREETS
_ , NEW YORK. June 8. ?f bushels of wheat, valued at 200,000 dollars, are lying in roped off streets at Burkburnet, Texas, because the thre grain elevators in the town are already full. iT°% Brookman. editor of the Weekly Star,” said that trucks were lined up for a mile, waiting to unload more wheat. "Last year we had a good wheat harvest, but this year it looks like a real one,” he said. Elevator operators were having the wheat dumped along the sides of the streets because they had no other place to put it. Four blocks are roped on, r Mr Brookman said that the wheat was being bought at 198 cents a bushel.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25517, 10 June 1948, Page 5
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