Word: riverton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Have a Chair. The famed Hitchcock chairs, sold from door to door by Yankee peddlers more than 100 years ago, were back in production. In the rebuilt original plant at Riverton (formerly Hitchcocks-ville), Conn., enterprising Furniture Makers John Kenney and Richard Coombs were turning out rush-seated Hitchcock crown backs, turtle backs, button backs and plain slat backs, for sale throughout the U.S. The price...
Richard E. Hill, North Bend., Wash., William E. Horton 2G.B., Riverton, Nebr., Ray W. House, Mansfield, III., Willard A. Johnson, Wichita, Kans., Gordon L. Taylor, Twin Peaks, Calif., Samuel T. Keim, Roanoke, Tex., Alan F. Lafley, Keene, N. H., Charles H. Lundquist, Portland, Ore., George J. Mason, Jr., Dallas...
...Japanese beetle probably came from Japan on a shipment of ornamental shrubs. It was discovered in the U.S. in 1916 near Riverton, N.J. Like concentric ripples in a pool, the beetles spread year by year to surrounding territory. Since quantities of U.S. nursery stock are grown in the most beetled area of New Jersey, the insects would soon have infested the whole U.S. but for a firm Federal quarantine. Each year on the eastern seaboard the beetles now devour millions of dollars' worth of foliage, fruits, flowers, vegetables. They spend over three-fourths of their year of life...