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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after Henry Wallace tackled the farm problem in 1933 with AAA, the God of Drought came to his aid. Drought as well as subsidy and legal restriction reduced wheat surpluses, corn surpluses, even cotton surpluses. But three years ago Drought began to withdraw its assistance. This year Drought turned its attention (selectively) to the Northeastern States: May was bone dry and July was desert (until rains came last week) and both did plenty of damage to truck and fruit crops. But eastern Drought did not reduce the crops that are Mr. Wallace's big problems...
Last week he saw one of his pet dreams come true. For 18 years Jimmy Rice tried to persuade the U.S. Government to finance a world's fair of poultry. When the Government began saying no, he organized in 1921 the first world's poultry fair at The Hague. Last week, backed by a $100,000 Federal subsidy, the seventh World's Poultry Congress opened in the great halls of Cleveland's 1936-37 Great Lakes Exposition (left standing for the occasion). It was the biggest convention to be held in the U.S. this year...
...cackle of 10,000 assorted fowl, delegates from 45 foreign nations and poultry fanciers from 48 States began a ten-day chicken festival. No less than 150,000 congress tickets were sold to poultry raisers four months before the opening. By the fourth day attendance was 110,000; 500,000 poultry folk were expected in Cleveland before this week...
...Chip Steak Co. collects ⅛? per steak royalty. Present output of "Chip Steaks" is at the rate of 30,000,000 a year, monthly royalties about $2,500. By the end of 1939 Carpenter expects to see royalties of $5,000 a month. Chip Steak Corp. of Illinois which began doing business two months ago in Chicago, reported to Salesman Carpenter that its output the second month was 66% above the first...
...tailor shop on Chicago's West Side with $2 and came back with a bundle of balsawood, twine and glue. Jolly, dark-haired, young Bill Bibichkow took the rest of the capital and came back with a scroll saw. Working after classes at Crane Technical High School they began to turn out model airplane kits, sold the first one for 43?. For the first month of their partnership-October, 1929-their books showed: gross business, $5.59; expenses, $3.35; balance...