TIDES IN THE WEST - A Wheat Pool Story by Nesbitt, Leonard D - 1962

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Modern Press, 1962. 413 pp. Followed by an index. Brown cloth lettered in dark brown on the front panel and spine. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates and with drawings by Wm. W. Perehudoff. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with a short tear at the foot of the spine; no interior markings. The Contents are: The Land and the People; Wheat Marketing - The Speculative System; Marketing Controls in World War I; The Period of Frustration - 1919 - 1923; Alberta Turns to the Wheat Pool Plan; Sapiro Sets the Wheels in Motion; Wheat Pool Sign-up Succeeds; The Record of the First Pool Year, 1923 - 1924; Wheat Pool Movement Becomes Prairie-wide; The Central Selling Agency; History of Early Farmer Co-operative Movements; The Building of the Pool Elevator Systems; Progress in the 1926 - 1927 Crop Year; The Years of the Big Crops - 1927 and 1928; Annals of the Alberta Wheat Pool; Wheat Pool Becomes Canada's Greatest Business; Financial Panic Sweeps the World; Boom and Bust in the Wheat Market; Persistent Decline of Wheat Prices; The Battle of Wheat; Wheat Pools Calculate Financial Losses; Controversy Over Government Guarantees; McFarland, Wheat Price Stabilizer; Futures Trading Under Examination; 1931 - Contract Pooling Ends; Parliament Creates Canadian Wheat Board; The Murray Board Takes Over; The Turgeon Royal Grain Commission; The Bracken Conference; The Years the Locust Had Eaten; Pool Debt Repayment - New Policy Inaugurated; Early Years of World War II; Canadian Agriculture in Wartime; The Wheat Pools and Income Taxation; The British-Canadian Wheat Agreement; International Wheat Agreements; The Canadian Wheat Board; Coarse Grains Marketing; The Crow's Nest Pass Agreement; Alberta Pool's Financial Progress; Public Relations; The Wheat Pool and the Co-operative Movement; Wheat Pool Achievements; The Challenge of the Agricultural Revolution; and Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Wm. W. Perehudoff;. 8vo.