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Even in midwinter, the land does not hold back its wealth. In Florida it is harvest season. Men & women in straw hats swarm over beanfields and sugar-cane plantations; trucks churn through fields to pick up oranges and grapefruit; the strawberry crop moves out by the carload; small farmers ride to town in wagons brimming with cucumbers, squash, eggplant. In Texas' Rio Grande Valley it is harvest time for grapefruit and cabbage, for tomatoes, spinach, broccoli, peppers, carrots and beets...
...purifying device designed for U.S. woodworking mills is unprecedented because it 1) removes wood dust by centrifugal force; 2) concentrates it as a byproduct that is salable in carload lots at $35 a ton. The machine sucks in dusty air, sets it whirling at high speeds. The particles of dust fly to the periphery and clean air comes out of the vortex...
Super markets (defined by Guernsey as self-service groceries with at least a $100,000-a-year gross) buy groceries in carload lots, move them directly from freight car to customer; Super Market Merchandising estimates their operating costs at 12.9% (v. 19% to 21% for chains and 22% to 25% for most independents). As an economical method of distributing food, they got the blessings last week of not only Guernsey but also Corwin D. Edwards, who is in charge of the Justice Department's anti-trust investigation of the food industry...
...pickets the White House grounds stretched, green and rich, to the gleaming white mansion. The cop on the corner groaned at the task of protecting "them sorry sons a'bitches." (They needed protection. Recently a Marine jumped on a picket and beat him up with his belt.) A carload of Indiana tourists stopped to stare. The cop made them move on. Said he bitterly: "That there fellow had his kids with him. This is probably their first -and last-trip to Washington. They want a good look at the White House...
...some years Lumberman MacMillan has been the world's No. 1 exporter of lumber. But, at 55, success has not smoothed his edge. To a muddleheaded Government clerk who telephoned him to ask what should be done with a carload of shingles, he replied: "Print the Lord's Prayer on every one of them." He answers his own telephone with a gruff "MacMillan speaking." Once at a formal dinner there was a hushed lull while the diners waited for someone to say grace. The silence was broken by his boom: "MacMillan speaking...