Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tourist and restaurant trade along the Hudson River, a highly competitive business, got some new enterprisers last week. Their names: Eleanor Roosevelt and son Elliott. Manager Elliott announced that their Val-Kill Inn would probably begin selling meals and lodging this fall...
Like many another big estate owner, the Roosevelts have found their holdings too expensive to staff and maintain as residences alone. They have to be made to pay their own way. Squire Elliott started things last Christmas by resuming the sale of Christmas trees. (There are 450,000 trees on the estate, many planted by F.D.R...
This year Elliott is planting alfalfa, clover, oats and corn, enough to fatten 100 steers a year. He has built up his flock of chickens until they are producing 1,700 eggs a day, and plans to add turkeys and capons. Along with the milk, cream and butter from 45 Guernseys, the eggs and chickens are sold to wholesalers in nearby towns...
...Elliott does not intend to remain a mere wholesale supplier for long. The Roosevelts now raise 200 pigs a year and already have smokehouses to cure hams and bacon. They plan to put out their own brand (Val-Kill) of sausage, hams and cheese. A little plugging of their products should make it easy to sell all they can turn...
Houghteling's announcement followed the lead of his cousins, Elliott and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., in backing Eisenhower for the Democratic nomination. The organization will seek chapters in "100 campuses in every state within the next ten days," under the National Chairmanship of Robert Boch of the University of Kansas...