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...copy their U. S. rivals. They would also like to play as ably. When competition for the Westchester Cup began in 1886, ten years after polo was introduced in the U. S. by Publisher James Gordon Bennett, England won regularly. The famed "Big Four" of U. S. polo - Devereux Milburn, Harry Payne Whitney and the Waterbury brothers, Monty and Larry - turned the tide in 1909, won again in 1911 and 1913, without losing a game. The U. S. lost the Westchester Cup in 1914, regained it in the first series after the War in 1921. British teams challenging...
Tall, dimpled Evelyn Preston, president of the League, asked why 1935 earnings failed by 50? per share to cover the $1.60 dividend. President Milburn said most of the difference was due to produce losses (30? per share), the farmers' milk strike in Illinois (10? to 15?) and a strike of milk wagon drivers in Milwaukee (remainder...
...utter unreasonableness of the union's demands made that impossible,'' snapped President Milburn...
...that is so," countered President Milburn, "the loss is taken up elsewhere because our sales show an increase...
...trooped corn & wheat farmers. Their object was to find out just what AAA was going to make them do to share in the $400,000,000 to $500,000,000 annual bounty under the new Soil Conservation Act. To Memphis went Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, to Chicago Assistant Secretary Milburn Lincoln Wilson, to explain things: The Government meant to take 30,000,000 out of 300,000,000 acres normally devoted to soil-depleting crops (cotton, corn, wheat) and put them into soil-conserving crops (alfalfa, soya beans). Farmers would probably be paid 75? to $1 an acre for planting...