Word: albanus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring Soupmaker Albanus Phillips (Phillips Packing Co.) wagered a diamond-back terrapin dinner that Walter P. Chrysler could not raise ten tons of tomatoes an acre on his Dorchester County, Md., estate. Gentleman-farmer Chrysler dispatched a fleet of trucks to Florida, imported the finest half-grown plants, had them tended daily. Last week the tomatoes were harvested, weighed. The costly Chrysler tomato patch had produced the shameful yield of 7.95 tons an acre...