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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...
Earned Repose. He had earned his rest. Few men can ever have gone through more plain hell trying to find a place in the special hell of battle. Ben Kuroki's father was a seed-potato grower in Hershey, Neb., a town of about 500 people. Ben and his kid brother Fred (now overseas with an engineer outfit) volunteered for the Army two days after Pearl Harbor, were accepted a month later. Ben landed in the Air Forces and started to run his personal gantlet at Sheppard Field...
...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...
Things should be calmer in 1944. But Marvin still gets emergency calls-a sugar grower needs a shipment of live frogs from Argentina to eat insects menacing the sugar crop; a silk concern wants a shipment of silkworm eggs from Turkey. He turned down a request to ship perfume essence, worth $1,500 a Ib. But when the U.S. onion crop turned out poorly, 61,600 pounds of onion seeds were flown in from Argentina...
With no capital, the two promoters found 18 tenants: an avocado grower, a man who sold sherry from a barrel, a florist, a rabbit raiser, more than a dozen farmers. Beck & Dahlhjelm got lumber and awnings on credit, built their own stalls, to rent for 50? each a day. They persuaded a millionaire oil producer, Earl Gilmore, to let them use a vacant plot he owned in the Wilshire residential district. Beck wrote radio ads, got them broadcast over KNX on credit. They were directed at farmers ("don't bother to bring us anything but the best"), but shrewdly...