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...tree nuts set records. Cotton, wheat, oats, tobacco, apples, peaches and pears were above average. Nature had been kind; improved technology had increased yields by a whopping 50% an acre in the past 20 years. And men had worked hard for the bounty they would reap. As Mrs. Barbour pointed out: "People look at our apple trees and say, 'My, my, just look at all those dollars hanging on the trees.' They think we just sat on the porch and watched them grow. They don't know that a lot of good hard work has gone into...
Evenings had turned cool, and the call of the whippoorwill came sharp and insistent across fields fat with Indiana's richest harvest in years. At Walter Barbour's 232-acre farm outside Indianapolis, baskets of sun-ripened peaches and big red tomatoes crowded the fruit sheds. In the orchards, the trees sagged under the weight of their reddening apples. Barbour had no idea how many bushels hung on the trees: "All I know is that there couldn't be any more apples in there than what's on the trees right...
Corn in the Crib. Hard-working Farmer Barbour's only worry was a glut that might force prices down. In Vincennes, they had quit picking peaches because they could not find a market. Other farmers across the U.S. had also become apprehensive of plenty. In California, pears and early Gravenstein apples went to waste. In Iowa, many a farmer's cribs were still crammed with last year's record crop of corn. This year's crop was nearly...
...last week, Boston's radioactive, midget had chain-reacted into a million-a-year business. Tracerlab's shy, ascetic president, William E. Barbour Jr., 39, announced that with the new "Beta Gauge," an atomic method to help control production by measuring the thickness of industrial products, Tracerlab had moved from a laboratory-type company into an industrial...
Feelers were also sent to the Cumberland Presbyterians (75,000 members), the Reformed Church in America (200,000), and the 225,000 United Presbyterians. Said 54-year-old Moderator Barbour: "It is my hope and prayer [that] one great Presbyterian Church will be created...