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...James D. Mooney, 70, former General Motors executive and onetime president and board chairman of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., was elected president of Hoe & Co., biggest U.S. manufacturers of rotary printing presses. He succeeds Arthur Dressel, who resigned because of illness. Mooney lands in the thick of two fights: 1) a campaign by a stockholder faction to reinstate Dressel's ousted predecessor, Joseph L. Auer; and 2) an A.F.L. machinists' strike that has closed Hoe's main plants since January...
...Chemical Hoe. A new chemical spray called Alanap (N -I naphthyl phthalamic acid) that kills weeds and crabgrass before they emerge from the soil, but spares farm crops and grass, was announced by U.S. Rubber Co. One to three pounds an acre is sufficient to control weeds among row crops for three to eight weeks. Price: about...
Eight-Wife Man. The new Secretary of Agriculture, who comes from a long line of Mormons, started with a tough row to hoe-a row of sugar beets on his family's 160-acre farm in the Cache Valley of southern Idaho. His paternal great-grandfather and namesake, an early Apostle and eight-wife man in the days when Mormons advocated plural marriage, accompanied Brigham Young to the Salt Lake desert; his grandfather was born in a covered wagon as the family moved across the plains. Ezra himself was born in a two-room frame house, which was expanded...
...Hoe Hands. Troubled by the fact that his cotton plants had to be constantly hoed to keep them from being choked by wild grass, Stahmann built up a flock of 25,000 geese and found that they cleaned out the weeds just as well as Mexican hoe hands, who were hard to hire. Not only did the geese find their own food and enrich the soil with fertilizer, but when the cotton crop was harvested they could be sold. But they were not popular. Reason: high price...
...over the valley, encouraging them to start goose farms of their own. Since he has not enough cotton acreage to "run" all the geese he can slaughter, Stahmann has set up another plan. He sells five-week-old geese to other farmers at a low price, to use as hoe hands in their own cotton patches. After the geese have fattened for twelve weeks he buys them back at around the original price, for slaughter. As a result of all this goose-swapping, the farmers get free weeding and free fertilizer, Stahmann free fattening...