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Next Balish partner was Abraham Rosenblum, "Onion King" in 1918 when young Ben went to work for him. Three years later, having saved $35,000, Onionman Balish joined forces with a rich 50-year-old produce jobber named Carl I. Dingfelder. Dingfelder put up most of the money, Balish the onion experience, and by 1923 Dingfelder & Balish were tops in onion jobbing...
...onions fortransplanting), betook himself to a dancing class, picked out 15-year-old Dolores Volk, crowned her Colorado's "1936 Onion Set Queen." Queen Volk, who lives with her mother in Greeley, Colo., donned a set of onion sets, posed without benefit of throne, float or clothes in Onionman Barteldes' broad black acres...
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