Word: canning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fulwood soon tapped a bigger market. Canning companies, like Campbell Soup, Stokely-Van Camp, were then raising their own plants under glass in cold frames. They found that Fulwood's field-grown seedlings were hardier, could be harvested earlier and cost less ($2.50 to $3 per thousand v. $8 to $10 for cold frame plants). A tremendous market for seedlings developed (Campbell's alone buys 80,000,000 tomato plants a year) ano seedling growing sprouted into the biggest industry in Tift County. Where cotton had once been king, the new ruler was the tomato. Paul Fulwood...
...best was Fomento's (Chilean Government planning and financing corporation), sparked by vigorous Oscar Gajardo. Fomento had already spent $110,000,000, expected to put $140,000,000 more into economic landscaping this year. Its comprehensive plan reaches from steel to oil, from cattle to fish canning...
...Canning for Relief...
Executive Director Victory Collection of Canned Food Community Canning Program for War Relief New York City
Clement Attlee had not attained his objective-the British-American Big Two which Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin suggested last fortnight. But Britain's Socialist Prime Minister might yet fulfill the aim of his 19th-Century predecessor, Canning, who "called in the New World to redress the balance...