Word: processors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...cotton, wheat, tobacco, peanuts) made similar recoveries of some $150,000,000. Thus the august Court had, in effect, declared a $200,000,000 melon for U. S. farm-product processors. By last week many a processors' customer was impatiently looking for his cut. In Manhattan a small, blond Ultimate Consumer named Edwin Reiskind brought suit "on behalf of myself and all other consumers of agricultural products." This Russian-born left-winger sought to restrain Standard Milling Co., National Biscuit Co., Wheatena Corp., Postum Co., Consolidated Cigar Corp., Corn Products Refining Co. and 19 other companies from "disposing...
Denouncing the A.A.A. program for having "endangered our food supply, reduced consumption, and opened the avenue for future monopolies in which the farmer and rich processor would be able to gouge the consumer" Carle C. Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Sociology, recently returned from a White House visit at which he discussed the A.A.A. with President Roosevelt, yesterday hailed the Supreme Court decision with optimism...
...A.A.A. because it has raised prices, reduced consumption, made exports less than they would have been, has taxed the poor man in the city more than the wealthy, has endangered our food supply, and has opened the avenue for future monopolies in which the farmer and the rich processor would be able to gouge the consumer...
...suit of Hoosac Mills to be excused from paying processing and floor taxes on the ground that AAA is unconstitutional. The hearing, which began week before (TIME, Dec. 16), concluded last week when onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, after arguing that processing taxes were "robbing Peter the processor to pay Paul the producer," dropped his voice and declared...