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Word: henington (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 65 crop experts met in Chicago to form the Grain Analysts' Club, one of their number was a woman: comely, redhaired, blue-eyed Eileen Henington Miller. Selfconscious, Mrs. Miller offered to withdraw, but her male colleagues would not let her. One of the country's most brilliant crop forecasters, she has worked as a salesgirl in a department store and a stenographer in a Memphis cotton house where she began writing crop reports in 1919. As estimator for James E. Bennett & Co., Mrs. Miller does not rely solely on the reports of her 5,000 agents but travels personally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wheat Week | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

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