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wheat pool

British  

noun

  1. (in Western Canada) a cereal farmers' cooperative

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Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine, privately a member of the Kansas wheat pool, attended the conference; declared: "If this conference produces a central structure for the nine state pools, great good will be accomplished."

From Time Magazine Archive

Canada's wheat pool is the biggest on Earth.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Canadian wheat pool is said to have considered Nat Murray's crop estimates better than the U. S. Government's.

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George lost most of his share in a wheat pool during World War I. Now he had another fat poke.

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Where were your scruples, a year ago, when people were paying 25 cents a loaf for bread, because of that big wheat pool you put through?

From The Air Trust by England, George Allan