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...sheds. In the fields some 2,500 nonunionized Mexican and Filipino "stoop laborers" had to suspend operations also. In the autumn 95% of the nation's lettuce comes from Salinas. By last week, with both sides still in disagreement and the crop waiting in fields and sheds for shipment, this $11,000,000 agricultural industry seemed thoroughly paralyzed. A Growers-Shippers' Association official estimated that the strike was losing his friends and their idle employes...
...controls was Mack Rust, who handled most of the technical problems in developing the picker. Brother John, who first conceived the principle, had gone to Russia. The USSR had bought two of the ten machines which the brothers have so far manufactured, and John Rust went along with the shipment to show Communist agriculturists how to run them...
...paper the dairyman read that the Department of Commerce had just announced the discovery by a German of a new method of keeping milk for a long time without refrigeration. By sealing the containers with oxygen, a shipment of fresh milk from Rotterdam to Capetown and back was found after 60 days' travel to be "unchanged in taste, nourishing qualities or chemical consistency." Plain was the possibility of future importations of fresh milk from Europe or South America by this method...
...Victoria looked down on the brawling mill town of Gastown, named for a saloonkeeper, "Gassy Jack" Deighton. To the rage of Victoria's aristocrats, Canadian Pacific officials renamed Gastown Vancouver. As the world's trade with Japan and China increased and the Panama Canal made possible water shipment of Canadian wheat, Vancouver's magnificent harbor became a key port. Today some of the West Coast's toughest, smartest tycoons are Vancouver's Harvey Reginald MacMillan (lumber, salmon), Austin Charles Taylor (oil, gold), the Spencer brothers (stores, gold...
...consistency which requires only one man to handle it and particularly pleases foreign buyers who deplore the shabby wrapping of the rest of U. S. cotton. Today Anderson, Clayton operate traveling gins in sparsely-settled areas of Mexico, compresses to reduce the size of ordinary gin bales for overseas shipment, warehouses with a capacity of 2,000,000 bales, a barge line on the Ouachita, Mississippi and Warrior Rivers to carry cotton to tidewater. It runs a school to teach the fine art of cotton grading, finances cotton growing in irrigated sections, has even distributed hogs to improve...