Word: grower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toward reorganization. A prime motive for proceeding through a receivership was suspected to be so that the remaining 16% of the debenture holders will be "frozen out," thereby prevented from disrupting plans by demanding payment Jan. 1. Although conditions have often seemed hopeless in the sugar industry, many a grower believes that the lowest point has been reached and that from now on returns will be satisfactory. With the increase in population, sugar consumption has steadily increased at an average annual rate of about 7%. While production soared much swifter than that for a few years, there is no indication...
Wheat. President Hoover completed his Federal Farm Board by "drafting" as its wheat member Samuel Roy McKelvie, Republican, Methodist, Mason, Odd Fellow, Elk, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska, where he is still known as a "political farmer." No wheat-grower, he publishes the Nebraska Farmer through which he preaches his agricultural gospel: no equalization fee; no debenture; the farmer must help himself. Wheat growers had rowed so long among themselves over a representative on the Hoover board that the President, impatient, picked Mr. McKelvie as his own compromise. Aged 48 and conservative. Mr. McKelvie anticipated that the reduction...
...wine grower's cellar, Bordeaux and Burgundy are treated with the respect due important people. The care that is taken with them consists in preserving them from all impurity, in letting them, day by day, gently elaborate their perfection...
Campolo enjoys the distinction of being already rich. Son of a South American cotton-grower he has had three automobiles since he first learned to drive. The late great Tex Rickard had heard of him but just as he intended bringing him to the U. S. Campolo was knocked out by Nebraska's Monte Munn. He intends retrieving his laurels next month by fighting the winner of the Heeney-Maloney fight He said that if he were knocked out in the U. S. he would immediately return to the Argentine...
Upon the Soviet's sensible invitations Thomas D. Campbell, world's largest individual wheat grower, prepared to sail for Russia this week, and Ford and G. M. C. were considering the construction of assembly plants there...