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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take down to his new farm on Long Island. An addled architect wrung the neck of a prize gamecock, tried to make off with it under his coat. But the prime news of this annual gathering of fowl fanciers, the biggest in 23 years, was its display of the largest number of ornamental pheasants ever exhibited at a U. S. show...
Last week "Phil" Plant and his second wife put their special floating trailer aboard ship in Manhattan, set sail for Africa to collect ostriches and wart hogs for the American Museum of Natural History. But pheasants from the Plant collection of 3,000, one of the largest in the East, were among the Nepal Kaleeges, Blue Manchurians, Cheers, Versicolors and Impeyans which graced the Poultry Show. "They're just to look at," explains Fancier Plant. "They might replace peacocks that people keep in penthouses. They're like a miniature peacock, but they're more dainty. There...
Result of this lassitude was that after more or less keeping pace with consumption from 1933 through 1935 the production of cocoa in West Africa began to fall off relatively last year. On the British Gold Coast, whose Accra beans make up the largest proportion of the crop, an early season drought deprived trees of needed moisture. Cocoa figures are notoriously hard to get but when harvest time came on the Gold Coast in October, crop estimate for that area dropped from 260,000 ton to 235,000. In Brazil, whose bahia crop is the world's second largest...
...flung clients some $457,000,000. Biggest and costliest of its kind though it was, as the year turned there was brewing another industrial battle which promised to make the shipping strike look like a brawl in a waterfront saloon. One mighty antagonist was the world's largest automobile manufacturer, General Motors Corp., master of almost half the nation's No. i industry. The other was the Committee for Industrial Organization chairmanned by the boldest Labor leader in U. S. history, John Llewellyn Lewis, whose ambition is to make himself master of a united U. S. industrial working...
...months ago swart, dynamic, 70-year-old Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, Director-General of Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., one of the world's largest producers of crude petroleum, married his third wife, Charlotte Mina Knack, a German (TIME, June...