Word: poultrymen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poultrymen wish the New Deal would stop worrying about cotton, grain & tobacco growers and pay some attention to them. Said one delegate to last week's Congress: "Poultry produces enough dollars every year to make the income of U.S. Steel Corp. look like chicken feed." He might have added that it is not much more profitable as a business. As long as three out of four eggs are a byproduct of general farming-produced with little direct cost-competition keeps prices down to a level where there is little profit in the business for most specialists...
Last week, when Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell called a trade meeting of Philadelphia and Boston poultrymen for Nov. 26, the cork of their wrath popped out of the bottle of their indignation. Said Charles F. Bauman, secretary of the Philadelphia dealers: "He's just plain dumb or plumb mean. Either it's stupidity or else he knows Nov. 26 is one of the times we work day & night. If Mr. Tugwell doesn't know that Thanksgiving Day [Nov. 28] means turkey or some kind of fowl to most of the U. S. what right...