Word: growers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commented Secretary of Commerce Roper himself a cotton grower: ''How would we determine the amount of cotton a nation might have from us? Would we be governed by the average exports to that nation over a five-year period, or limit the amount to actual spindle requirements...
...jail because I just cannot control the actions of my queen bees." Last week the Senate relieved Apiarist Glass by voting queen bees out of the AAAmendments. "To the Garbage Can." His 10,000 acres of Virginia orchards make Senator Harry Flood Byrd the biggest apple-grower east of the Mississippi. As such he uprose last week to lead an attack on the proposal which would permit minimum price-fixing on certain foodstuffs. "As a producer of food," cried Pomologist Byrd. "I am firmly convinced that much more harm than good will result from the attempt to fix prices, those...
...require 3,000,000 acres devoted to flax, or 750,000 acres of tung groves, calculated Mr. Williamson. He preferred tung trees because forage crops can be grown between the trees. A machine to shell the nuts and a press to extract the oil are all that a tung grower needs to make his crop ready for market...
Just squeeze a few chiseling middlemen- AAA officials said that was all their amendments aim to do. But who, asked Senator Byrd; ever heard of a bureaucrat not using all the powers given him? No silver-tongued orator is Harry Byrd but he is an apple grower, the biggest east of the Mississippi, operator of 10,000 acres of Virginia orchards. Said he last fortnight...
...Henry Wallace's chief stumbling block. The Byrds are a Virginia family ancient as any, but Harry's Father, Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr., a successful criminal lawyer, made unsuccessful investments, died poor. He left three sons, Tom, Dick and Harry. Tom grew up to be an apple grower. Dick was regarded as something of a sissy and in the course of time developed an uncommon interest in the North and South Poles. Harry likes to record that at the age of 15 he was a newspaper publisher, farmer and apple grower. His paper was the Win chester Evening...