Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week another giant of farm co-operation strode on the U. S. scene. Incorporated at $50,000,000 as the United Growers of America, this new co-operative purposed to bring together into one large selling agency fruit and vegetable growers throughout the land, exclusive of California. It will maintain cold storage warehouses, special transportation equipment, practice "big business" sales methods. Sixty fruit and truck co-operatives in 25 states have already pledged themselves to market through it. Its board chairman: Julius Howland Barnes, onetime president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, one-time president...
...share with wine-making husbandmen the "exceptions" under Prohibition. From many a company they can buy barrels of perfectly legal grape juice which, unless an act of God is carefully averted, will ferment in the city home to make a cup no less convivial than that quaffed on the farm. Urban winemakers were quick to interpret the Doran order as an added legal protection to their enterprise...
...great an industry has become the growing of grapes that its representatives last week were in Washington, buzzing hopefully about the offices of the Federal Farm Board, seeking loans to develop co-operation between producer and consumer, to eliminate waste...
...Farm relief at any price was hectically sought last week by Rumania's peasant-born Prime Minister, smart, beetle-browed Juliu Maniu, once a farmer himself...
...from leading European locomotive works. Only one concern-a German syndicate-took seriously the Prime Minister's ultrashort time limit. They would supply him with 100 husky harvest-pullers-if Rumania would pay something like twice the normal price. All the other bidders seemed to assume that what Farm Reliever Maniu really wanted was a low price on 100 locomotives for delivery by Christmas or perhaps next Spring...