Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Frances Margaret (Judith) Anderson, 48, versatile veteran stage & screen actress; and Luther Greene, 38, Broadway theatrical producer; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...goes down in Ford County these days at about 7 o'clock, but there is light enough for another hour of work. By 8 o'clock, after the tarpaulins had been thrown over the engines, Frank Anderson and his helpers were too tired to talk about being tired. Back at the barn, Frank milked again, while Jack fed the horse and slopped the pigs. Then the men fell to Zula's thick round steak, fried potatoes, tomatoes, lemon-meringue...
After supper Frank Anderson let himself down in his easy chair. No, he couldn't kick. This was fine, hard wheat-Class One, every bit of it. His 600 acres would yield about 8,000 bushels. At last week's elevator price of $1.70 a bushel, that would mean about...
High Price of Success. But not right away. Farmer Anderson is also a hard-headed businessman and he is not going to sell his wheat right now-not before January if he can help it. That is one reason why he built his own elevator. What about the Government's order to farmers to sell half the grain they bring in for storage? The stock answer of Ford County farmers: "Nuts to that." If the Government tried to put a penalty on everybody who does not comply, it would have to move against about 95% of the wheat belt...
...Frank Anderson's decision to hold his wheat has nothing to do with that order against withholding wheat for "famine prices." As a matter of fact, he thought the $1.70-a-bushel ceiling under OPA was a mighty fair price...