Last week the Federal Farm Board was back in the wheat market buying futures. Good times, not bad, put it there. There was a crop failure in Russia. U. S. grain prices spurted up and away from the weak security market. Talk of "dollar wheat" got back in press headlines. Farmers, faintly smiling, began paying off long overdue bills. A corner of some kind had been turned in wheat history.
Oct. 5 was grain's Black Monday. Wheat in Chicago wilted down to 44⅜¢ per bu., an all-time...
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