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...last week the U. S. Government was by way of becoming the biggest grocer of all time. Youngish (39) former cotton-bag-maker Milo Randolph Perkins, head of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, announced immediate expansion of the New Deal's orange-&-blue food stamp plan to Birmingham, Des Moines, Shawnee, Okla...
FSCC's perky President Milo Perkins, in devising a substitute and trying it at Rochester, is well aware that it costs the U. S. twice as much for handouts. For "surplus" in Rochester means any & all brands of designated foods, stocked and sold by the grocer in the usual way, at prevailing prices, which the U. S. Government has to pay when it redeems blue stamps. If Milo Perkins' plan works well enough to be spread over the U. S., its advantages will be that it balances Relief diets, stimulates the food trade, moves more farm produce through...
...optimists from the start, Milo Perkins & colleagues were moderately pleased by the early showing in Rochester. Of the 8,600 local Reliefers who received their checks, 3,900 had purchased stamps during the first three days. Total cost to them (for orange stamps): $29,026 to which the U. S. added $14,513 for blue stamps. After the first rush, stamp sales noticeably slackened, and Relief officials concluded that many of their clients would require much "education" before they would give up regular money for pretty pieces of paper. One in four of Rochester's WPAsters volunteered to accept...
When FSCC's President Jesse Tapp was shelved along with the two-price plan late in January, he was succeeded by a well-groomed young (39) businessman named Milo Randolph Perkins. In 1934 when outspoken Milo Perkins was running his own cotton-bagging business in Houston, he wrote Henry Wallace a hot letter denouncing administrative red tape in the first AAA, wrote an article in the Nation excoriating the shortsightedness of his fellow capitalists. In 1935 Henry Wallace hired Mr. Perkins as Assistant Secretary. He later became Assistant Farm Security Administrator, learned plenty at first hand about the woes...
...smoky Turner's Arena in Washington one night last week applause greeted Wrestler Leo Mortensen of Glendale, Calif. - also known as "Milo the Strong Man" - as he skillfully pinned the shoul ders of one Gene Bowman to the mat. A few minutes later a much stronger burst of applause greeted Wrestler Mortensen's sturdy sister Clara as, clad in a uniform which resembled a two-piece bathing suit, she climbed into the ring for a feature match with chunky Maria Gardini. After one fall apiece, Wrestler Mortensen, only moderately flushed by her exertions, suddenly lifted Wrestler Gardini over...