Word: greenleaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risked $600 to set up a small chicken business on the Bekaa Valley farm of Khalil's father. Ghattas turned the farm into such a show place that U.S. Point Four officials sent him to Purdue University to study animal husbandry. When he returned, he and Stevenson launched Greenleaf, began importing two breeds of U.S. chickens, one for egg-laying, the other for meat...
...poultry farm in the Middle East is Greenleaf Farm & Hatchery in Lebanon's flat, fertile valley of Bekaa, where Caesar's colonials once raised wheat. Hatched three years ago by husky Harvard ('48) Lawyer Robert Marshall Stevenson, 37. Greenleaf Farm delivers some 10,000 eggs and 1.500 chickens a day to Beirut alone, is a prime example of how well U.S. farming methods work in underdeveloped countries...
Last week Greenleaf signed a new contract to provide Beirut's airport restaurant with 750,000 fresh eggs a year. A British contractor asked Greenleaf to set up a vast poultry farm in Libya (on a percentage basis). A businessman in Saudi Arabia, anxious to furnish Mecca with fresh eggs, offered Greenleaf a similar contract. At a subsidiary farm near Shiraz, Iran, Greenleaf stepped up production to supply Iran's egg market. This week Greenleaf also made its first shipment of eggs to Aramco in Saudi Arabia, which now imports them from Australia. Predicted Stevenson: in 1960 Greenleaf...
Rich Man's Dish. Greenleaf's first big customer was the U.S. Air Force base in Dhahran. Weary of unreliable local merchants, erratic deliveries and low-quality products, the base's procurement officers at first agreed only to a trial contract. The shipments were so prompt-and the eggs so fresh-that the farm got a year's contract for 12,000 dozen monthly...
With Cheek of Tan. In Lansing, Kans., Prisoner Floyd E. Ireland won the poetry contest at Kansas State Prison, later was sent to solitary when his poem turned out to be the work of John Greenleaf Whittier...