Word: aroostook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose combined loss in 1959's first half is more than $2,000,000. A clear track for this second major combination would revive industrywide merger talks (e.g., between the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, and the proposed five-line New England tie-up of the Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, New York, New Haven & Hartford, and Rutland Railway...
RAILROAD MERGER is under discussion by five New England roads: Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Rutland Railway, New York, New Haven & Hartford. They want to cut costs of parallel operations, set up ninth biggest U.S. road with some 5,300 miles of track, $900 million of assets...
...Aroostook County potato growers suffered from wet weather and were outraged by Governor Cross's stand against price supports...
...there was a thriving potato black market, due to the short potato crop last year. OPS officials found that housewives were forced to pay 2? to 3? a lb. over ceiling, and sometimes to accept parsley and carrots in tie-in sales with their spuds. From Maine's Aroostook County came reports that potatoes were being shipped across the Canadian border, then shipped back into the U.S. as seed potatoes, on which there is no ceiling...
Spending his honeymoon with Yolanda Donlan (Mrs. Drake) on a farm in England, Fairbanks plays the dude. He continually argues with a cynical caretaker, whose Aroostook twang is painfully out of place, and with a handyman who can never finish a job. This too typical domestic scene is complemented by giggles from Yo-Yo (Yolanda, an actress who should have been left on the string) and snide marriage-night remarks from Drake...