Word: aroostook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston & Maine-Delaware & Hudson, Bangor & Aroostook. Maine Central...
...destroyers discover the whereabouts of the Black fleet's chief threat. By then it was too late. In the early morning the Saratoga pushed her bow into the wind, 45 planes soared from her launching deck, made their way above the vital locks. At the same time the Aroostook, representing the absent aircraft-carrier Langley, a giant Sikorsky started across the Isthmus to the locks Gatun, dropped its "bombs,"' was interned in "neutral" territory...
Republican Senators, ill particular, had many vexing items to dis cuss-not the least of which was the status of Arthur R. Gould, the pride of Aroostook County, Maine. Mr. Gould was the Republican nominee for Senator to succeed the late Senator Bert M. Fernald, and was expected to win the special election last week without a murmur. But, one week before election, noxious charges against him began to pop up. His Democratic opponent, Fulton J. Redman, produced records of a Canadian investigation of 1918 in which Mr. Gould admitted under oath paying $100,000 to one-time Premier...
Last year, 108,000 acres in Aroostook were planted to potatoes, compared with 100,000 this year. Production per acre will not, experts declare, quite equal that of 1924. The very large 1924 potato crop served to reduce prices sharply, and the vegetable sold as low as 75? to $1.00 a barrel. At present, under prospects of a smaller supply, the price has jumped to $2.25, with predictions of $2.50 to $3.00 later in the season...
...sell to the starch factories. Certain starch factories open only when potato prices are low, and on rising prices promptly close. Last year 6,500 carloads of potatoes went into starch, but high-potato prices this year will presumably leave starch-makers none at all. But the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad is not worrying. Potato farmers in Maine are profiting under present high prices, even though output is lower. When they start spending the proceeds, the Aroostook expects very good inbound freight...