Golden Era, 1900-1914
The first years of the 20th century were prosperous for all American farmers. The years 1910-1914 became a statistical benchmark, call "parity", that organized farm groups wanted the government to use as a benchmark for the level of prices and profits they felt they deserved.
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Famous quotes containing the word golden:
“Beloved, may your sleep be sound
That have found it where you fed.
What were all the world’s alarms
To mighty Paris when he found
Sleep upon a golden bed
That first dawn in Helen’s arms?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)