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Chicken farmers on the Orkney and Shetland islands off Scotland's northern coast were stuck with 2,000,000 eggs and no way to get them to market. On the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, potato farmers worried about how they would ship this year's crop to Britain...
Cargill has been prospering from thin margins on great volume ever since it was started a century ago by Will Cargill, son of a ship's master from Scotland's Orkney Islands. He set up a small grain storage shed near a rail terminal in Iowa, expanded with the railroads and the river barges; today, Cargill's 110 outposts are placed at almost every strategic transportation point in the midcontinent. The family business has been passed down through Cargill's descendants, who built huge grain elevators and expanded into everything from fish-meal processing in Peru...
...party's traditional championship of free enterprise and individual liberties seem timely to young citizens of Britain's welfare state. Grimond (pronounced Grimm-ond) is a tireless organizer who shuttles up to 80,000 miles a year between London, Liberal outposts and his far-flung constituency of Orkney and Shetland, a storm-battered 20-island chain in the North Atlantic, where he campaigns by motor launch and shanks' mare...
Committed by its charter, the Treaty of Rome, to enduring and "ever closer union," the Common Market may become a United States of Europe in the 1970s, with general elections, as British Liberal Leader Jo Grimond predicts, "reaching from the Orkney Islands to Sicily...
...Nevada's Howard W. Cannon, Ohio's Stephen M. Young, Pennsylvania's Joseph S. Clark, South Carolina's Olin Johnston, West Virginia's Robert C. Byrd and Jennings Randolph. *In August 1951, by a scared mare that Morse was showing at a fair in Orkney Springs...