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...Broom corn grows in sandy Kansas, Illinois and Oklahoma soil. It is still a valuable crop, despite vacuum cleaners' wide use. The U. S. crop this year is worth about $4,000,000. Last week growers set up a cry; they need harvest hands at once, else the crop may be spoiled...
...Rear Admiral" Cary Travers Grayson is "as eminent a turfman as he is a sailor" [TIME, Nov. 7] he must be one of those "turfmen" who follow the horses around the track with a broom and gocart. If Cary...
Also bright red frying pans, baking pans, skillets, roasting pots, boiling pots, canisters, tea kettles, broom handles & dust pans...
When the 1910 merger took place, George M. Reynolds was president of the Continental factory. His first banking job had been at Panora, Iowa, where he had charge of the broom and polish rag. He flourished; made his banking way to Des Moines, then to Chicago. President Taft in 1909 wanted him for secretary of the treasury. He refused. George is known as the quickest and the firmest to say yes or no to a banking matter...
...poverty of the school. That was in 1906 when the Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill took 18 boys and two faculty members to a farmhouse in the Berkshire Hills of Connecticut and founded Kent School. The beds-floors-eggs incident was the beginning of a student-supervised, student-broom-wielding system which runs the school to this day. Students regulate discipline, keep order in study hall, wait on tables, manage the athletic teams, keep the equipment -from footballs to library books- in order. Wealthy boys and boys of moderate means are treated alike. The system is based solely on. individual merits...