Only in Australia The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism

in 1846 of the Importation Act of 1815 (55 Geo.3c.26)—the Corn Laws—that had imposed steep import duties on cereals. Internation ...

1913 Canada was typically producing twice as much wheat each year (Table 13.1).^2 The romance of taming‘a sunburnt country’looms ...

lands of South Australia notes that both the northern expansion of wheat- growing in South Australia and the eastward expansion ...

Bulk handling was preceded by two innovations in trading. Thefirst innovation was the establishment of the Chicago Board of Trad ...

by borrowing against elevator receipts and contracts. Third, the risks of deteri- oration andfluctuating prices were no longer c ...

is now used as a cloak to hide rascality, a shield to protect fraud, a buckler to defend villainy. (Cited in Lurie 1979, p. 114) ...

land. This build-and-they-will-come model of infrastructure-led development was followed in virtually every corner of the expand ...

competitors, Hill was under no obligation to carry mail at a loss. Finally, Hill’s Northern Pacific could build branch lines wit ...

problematic climate and the onset of drought. The company had limited knowledge of the land or its economic potential. The poten ...

and using it to trade grain. In 1874 he joined the Minneapolis Millers Associ- ation, where he conceived of an audacious plan to ...

grading and inspection; and now no portion of the great wheat business moves with more ease and efficiency, a degree of care and ...

construction standards with a minimum capacity of 25,000 bushels. By 1890 there were ninety elevators—so-called Prairie sentinel ...

66,000 km of railway and a hugefleet of ships able to navigate the inland waterways. 13.6 Why Were There No Grain Elevators in A ...

writes:‘The farmer says“But I was paid wheat price for that.”So he was... because whatever he sends, however clean it may be, he ...

Griffiths compared the Australian market unfavourably with Saskatchewan, where the Co-Op Elevator Company was handling 30 millio ...

Among the vested interests resisting bulk handling were the‘lumpers’,a unionized cohort of heavy manual labourers who frequently ...

Ltd company in 1955, completing a bulk-handling terminal in Wallarroo in 1958 and Port Lincoln soon after. 13.7 Arrested Develop ...

and insider manipulation of the commodity market is of marginal significance to the tycoon’s contribution to economic, technical ...

‘Australia and Canada; The South the Better Land’. 1905.The Advertiser, 9 August, p. 5. Baker, R. S. 1900.‘The movement of wheat ...

‘The Telegraph’. 1881.The Telegraph, 29 July, p. 2. ‘The Wheat Commission’. 1908.The[Adelaide]Register, 4 November, p. 10. Water ...