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  3. During the early years of mis century, wheat was seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched t

During the early years of mis century, wheat was seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched t

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问题     During the early years of mis century, wheat was seen as the
very lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched
the yields and the price of wheat with almost as much feeling as (1)______
they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasingly
favorite topic of conversation.
    War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketing
the western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grain
selling as carrying on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. (2)______
Wheat prices were generally low in the autumn, and farmers could (3)______
not wait for markets to improve. It had happened too often (4)______
they sold their wheat soon after harvest when farm debts
were coming due, only to see prices rising and speculators
get rich. On various occasions, producer groups, asked for (5)______
firmer control, the government had no wish to become involved, (6)______
at least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened to run wildly. (7)______
    Anxious to check inflation and rising living costs, the federal
government appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal with
deliveries from the crops of 1917 and 1918. Grain Exchange
trading was suspended, but farmers sold at prices fixed by the (8)______
board. To handle with the crop of 1919, the government (9)______
appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board, in full authority to (10)_____
buy, sell, and set prices.
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