Word: burgoo
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...half-mile parade. Emblazoned on its side was the legend: OLD TOBACCO PRICES-SIX FEET UNDER THE SOD. To the blare of a 40-piece band they marched through the business streets of Carrollton to the Henry County Tobacco Warehouse. When somebody yelled "C'mon folks, the burgoo's ready!" they broke ranks, stampeded for the warehouse platform...
...insure the success of their first show, Carrollton businessmen had gone over to Lexington to fetch grey-thatched, handsome old James T. Looney, best brewer of burgoo stew in northern Kentucky. Over his open air vats, "Burgoomaster" Looney, proud of his 500-gal. iron kettle that was used in the Civil War to make gunpowder, had spent a day and a night brewing 1,500 gallons of burgoo.* Every last dipperful was exhausted before the crowd settled down to a program of speechmaking. On the platform, along with many another bigwig, were Carrollton's Ralph Malcolm Barker, president...
Juicy as the burgoo were the business prospects of each & every tobacco farmer at Carrollton and of thousands of their colleagues throughout the burley belt. When the burley market opens next month they will get an average of 18? to 20? a lb., highest burley price in five years. Reason: a one-third crop reduction under the AAA program. "Crop reduction has transformed a buyers' market into a sellers' market!" cried Secretary Ben Kilgore of the Kentucky Farm Bureau...
...Burgoomaster" Looney's recipe for 1,000 pal. of burgoo: 800 lb. lean beef with no bones; 200 lb. fat hens; 900 lb. canned tomatoes; 240 lb. canned carrots; 180 lb. canned corn; 200 lb. cabbage; 60 lb. salt; 4 lb. pepper; "my own seasoning." Cook 18 to 20 hr. in iron kettle out of doors over a wood fire. "It is thicker than soup and has a flavor from the open air you can't describe...
...Farm is Barry Shannon, brother of Bradley's old bookmaking partner. His trainer is H. J. ("Dick") Thompson, who has won for his employer more than $2,350,000 in stakes, practically every big U. S. racing event and four Derbies with Behave Yourself (1921), Bubbling Over (1926), Burgoo King (1932), Broker's Tip (1933). But the Colonel can, and has when Thompson was sick, trained his own horses himself. His brother John, after a career of big-game hunting and backing Explorer Frederick A. ("Doc") Cook, retired from their joint affairs to a Western ranch. Brother Garvey...