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Every night last week, special freight trains pulled out of Tifton, Ga., and sped north over the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line roads. The lo-to-yo-car trains, as well as dozens of chartered airliners, all carried the same load: tomato seed plants. Before the short shipping season ends, South Georgia farmers will ship a billion tender young tomato plants for planting in northern fields, along with hundreds of millions of onion, cabbage, broccoli, sweet potato, pepper and lettuce seedlings...
...this business, now worth some $10,000,000 a year, south Georgia farmers can thank Paul Bearing Fulwood Sr., 56. When he was 16, Tifton-born Paul Fulwood ran away from home rather than become a machinist, as his father wanted. He went to Florida and worked on a tomato farm, where he got the idea for the seedling business. At 17, he returned to Tifton, started to raise plants. First year's yield: 35 Ibs. of cabbage seed, some 350 bu. of potatoes...
...glass in cold frames. They found that Fulwood's field-grown seedlings were hardier, could be harvested earlier and cost less ($2.50 to $3 per thousand v. $8 to $10 for cold frame plants). A tremendous market for seedlings developed (Campbell's alone buys 80,000,000 tomato plants a year) ano seedling growing sprouted into the biggest industry in Tift County. Where cotton had once been king, the new ruler was the tomato. Paul Fulwood's business grew, with the help of General Manager Paul Jr., who studied plant pathology at the University of Georgia. This...
...Mayor Kelly,* the President rode in an open car, its safety glass raised to full height, to Soldier Field. There, as his car edged around the arena, he returned beaming smiles for the cheers. But as he alighted at the north end of the amphitheater, somebody threw a tomato at the President of the U.S. If Harry Truman noticed it as it squashed on the cinder track he gave no sign...
...Jackson Day dinner since 1944 turned out to be Harry Truman's kind of party. Though Washington's Mayflower Hotel had put out its best napery, the affair had the informality of a barbecue. Fortified with bourbon, 1,800 Democrats uncomplainingly ate the 700-calorie "austerity dinner" (tomato soup, baked chicken, potatoes, salad and one oatmeal cookie) for which they had paid $400 apiece. They whistled, whooped and slapped backs. Soprano Grace Moore rose with a flash of jewels, and sang a hillbilly song. Leon Henderson gave her a cigar...