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...world of commodity markets, where millions of eggs are traded every day, few traders had time for onions. Not until 1942 was the onion even listed on Chicago's big, bustling Mercantile Exchange, and there was so little interest (a mere 600 carlots traded v. 19,000 carlots of eggs) that it was subsequently dropped...
...last week the lowly onion was back with a rush; it was the hottest commodity* on the exchange and had pushed aside such heavily traded commodities as butter & eggs. Hour after hour, shirtsleeved brokers bid high & fast fof November futures, sending the price of a 50-lb. sack up as much as 50? in a day (the maximum permitted). More onions would be traded this month, experts estimated, than in all of 1948, when a record 21,214 carlots changed hands...
...particularly interested in the problem of food. In one of his reports, discussed by Dr. Pan S. Codellas of the University of California Medical School in the Bulletin of the History, of Medicine, Philo describes the preparation of the Greek Ks: "Take squill [a bulb root, shaped like an onion], which, after having been boiled down, is ... cut into the thinnest possible pieces. Afterwards it is mixed with one-fifth of sesame and one-fifteenth of opium poppy. When all of these have been pounded together in a mortar to a fine mass, knead it with honey and divide...
...Onions & Potatoes. Wisconsin-born Bill Gehring became a scientific farmer through spare-time study. He moved to Indiana in 1929 after marrying a Hoosier, got into mint farming by way of potatoes. Jasper County had been a heavy onion grower. When that market slumped, Gehring bought 350 brush-covered acres at $60 an acre (now worth upwards of $375), turned the fields to potatoes, and gradually added to his holdings. "Potatoes," explains Gehring, "meant rotation. To get steady potato crops, I reached for more land. For a good rotation crop, I chose mint. Mint and potatoes meant irrigation and controlling...
...wooly-minded TIME editor who characterized Walter Stace's attempt at a solution of the problem of moral standards as "wooly-minded," an onion. To Princeton's clear-thinking Professor Stace, an orchid...