Word: pekin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crib of Nelson Roth, east of Pekin, was sealed today [with] Seal No. 0-48-5 of the Secretary of Agriculture of the U.S. . . . Sealed in this farm crib are 5,400 bushels of 1948 corn on which the Government has loaned $1.42 a bushel. If this corn had had to be sold when cribbed, it would have brought $1.25. Thus Mr. Roth is $918 ahead by sealing it. If the price goes above $1.42 before Sept. i, 1949, Farmer Roth can sell it and pay his loan. If the price remains below $1.42, Roth will simply deliver the corn...
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...Long Island, which now raises five to six million Pekin ducks a year-about half the total U.S. supply-duck farmers last week were half-wishing the Emperor had kept his ducks. Their feed costs were the highest ever, but the price of ducks had dropped 13% in a month. Now, at the peak of their season, Long Islanders are shipping some 200,000 ducks a week to market. But wholesale prices have fallen to 26? a pound, 2½? below the old OPA ceiling...
Long Island's production comes from about 76 farms. In one half-mile stretch on Big Seatuck Creek alone, nearly 1,000,000 ducks are being raised this year. It all started when Farmer W. W. Hallock bought some of Yankee Palmer's eggs and began raising "Pekin" ducks. The ducks thrived on the sandy soil and the tidal streams. Quack Farmer Hallock soon had plenty of rivals...
...shipped as a private in 1917. During World War I he chafed aboard ship, a bored, seagoing marine. He saw more action after the war. In Haiti he won the Haitian Military Medal. In Nicaragua he twice won the Navy Cross. He served with the Horse Marines at Pekin, with the famed Fourth at Shanghai...