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Most household staples, despite a 10.5% jump in farm prices since Korea, were still selling below parity. Oranges on Nov. 15 (when parity was last computed) brought the grower an average $1.46 a box or 39% of parity, and before the Government could control oranges the price would have to rise to $3.70 a box. Similarly, milk would have to go up 13%, wheat 15%, corn 17%, butter fat 18% and potatoes 51% before price ceilings could...
...industry's biggest growth came from the sensational success of frozen orange juice, which also bailed out many a floundering Florida citrus grower. Four years ago, Florida had such a glut of oranges that prices tumbled to as little as 65? a box. In 1949-50, as frozen-food packers put up 21 million gallons of concentrated orange juice, the demand for oranges outran supply and prices rose...
...with TB (The Plague and I), she went to live in Seattle at her widowed mother's house. There her bossy big sister Mary, a live-wire private secretary with a city full of contacts, thrust her into the hands of one employer after another, including "a rabbit grower, a lawyer, a credit bureau, a purse seiner, a florist, a public stenographer, a dentist, a laboratory of clinical medicine and a gangster...
White-haired, keen-eyed Sam Kennedy, Iowa's biggest onion and potato grower, last week finished a distasteful task. Across a 40-acre field on his farm near Clear Lake, Farmer Kennedy dumped 30 carloads of red and yellow globe onions. He put them there to rot. Like many another grower, Kennedy had been caught when onion prices, unsupported by Government props, collapsed a fortnight...
...cranberry grower on the Cape runs a tiny railroad on his farm. It is the last two gauger in the country. He picked up the antique's parts a few years ago from a Maine junk dealer, put them in working order and now uses the line to haul cran-berries. The local railroad-bugs intend to visit him sometime this spring and spend an afternoon examining his models and riding his ancient train...