Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total U. S. production of 39,637,000 bu. in 1935 can be largely attributed to Mr. Staley's pioneer work in educating the farmers of his own State in the production of soybeans and it is also interesting to note that Mr. Staley built the first soybean plant in the U. S. in 1922, which provided a commercial market for the farmers of Illinois. Mr. Staley realized the possibilities in the soybean industry as far back as 1916 and even sent men to China to study the growing and cultivation of the soybean to be produced in this...
Detroit's Ford may be the most publicized promoter of soybeans, but Reader Mead is right in rating Decatur's Staley as a potent longtime soybean processor. As a North Carolina farm boy, Professor Staley was first shown soybean plants by a returned missionary, never lost interest in the crop thereafter. A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., makers of corn products, crushed 5,764 bu. of beans when it opened its bean processing plant in October 1922, crushed 317,202 bu. in March...
...Syracuse for Mr. Rand. There, he and one of his lieutenants explained, the missionaries took false names, represented themselves as members of the "Remington Rand personnel department," called at strikers' houses, started whispering campaigns to the effect that the union heads were selling the strikers out, that the plant would be moved out of Syracuse unless the strike was called...
...Racine, Wis. last week directors of J. I. Case Co. (farm machinery) voted a 6% bonus to all of its 1,700 employes who should be at work on Dec. 1. Joker was that the Case plant had been shut tight since Oct. 27, had no immediate prospect of reopening...
...Congress passed and President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone who had invented or discovered a new plant, provided it was asexually reproduced and not a tuber-propagated plant...