Word: grower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical mung grower is Victor Virgil Beard, 31, of Waukomis, who came home after 16 months in the Army. He had been discharged as an essential farmer. Early this summer Beard cut 2,500 bu. of wheat off 100 of his 600 acres of rich flat farmland. As soon as the wheat was in, Beard planted the 100 acres of wheatland to mungs, this fall harvested 17,400 Ibs. of beans. The wheat grossed Beard $3,575, the mungs $3,132-and Beard still has 1,250 Ibs. of beans for seeds...
...solicitous election official hastened forward with advice. The lever clanked again, caught correctly this time. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 62, self-styled tree grower of New York State, voter No. 251 of Hyde Park village, had exercised his right as a U.S. citizen...
...Election Day, Franklin Roosevelt slept late, set out at noon in the warm sunshine for the oak-beamed town hall at Hyde Park. There, at the polls, where he gave his occupation to Inspector Mildred M. Todd as "tree-grower," he enthusiastically accepted a piece of candy from Miss Todd, entered the booth munching...
Cornucopia. In Yakima. Wash., Messrs. Lemon and Cherry arranged to sell the Plum Apartments on West Chestnut Street to an apple grower from Cherry Hill...
...Denver last week one angry wool grower suggested that the easiest way to dispose of the 850-million lb. stockpile of foreign wool now clogging U.S. East Coast warehouses would be to stage another Boston Tea Party, chucking the foreign wool into the sea. Cooler heads recommended that the Government-owned stock of 200 million lb. of domestic wools be used before the imported stockpile is drawn upon. But everyone at the National Wool Growers Association meeting agreed on a hope that somehow the enormous surplus might be shipped abroad when war ends and the European textile industry is rehabilitated...