Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short life of Christmas trees and their festal market has inspired produce dealers to describe this sideline to their business as "the greatest of crapshooting games." Greatest U. S. Christmas crap-shooter was a Manhattan jobber named George Blanck, who cornered the market in 1916. He was supposed to have made $100,000 that year. In Portland, Me. people still talk about old Edward K. Chapman, who was for years a towering figure in the Christmas tree trade, although he never gave a Christmas present in all his life. Bearded as snowily as Santa Claus and a lover of balsam...
...from the Kris Kringle type is Manhattan's No. 1 Christmas tree dealer, 45-year-old Fred Vahlsing. One of the biggest vegetable shippers in the U. S., owner of rich farms in Texas' lower Rio Grande Valley, sharp-eyed Dealer Vahlsing makes money on Bonita carrots, advertised by radio's homiest housewife, Martha Deane. Says he: "Martha Deane, she's my carrot. . . ." From his bleak warehouse office on Manhattan's Warren Street, Dealer Vahlsing sends a man up to Nova Scotia early in July to make contracts with landowners and woodcutters. In October Vahlsing...
Christmas Tree King in Chicago is a genial Greek named Gust Relias, who will sell this year about 50 carloads of trees. A produce dealer like Fred Vahlsing, his mainstay is tomatoes. If Gust Relias is lucky this year, as he usually is, he will clear $20,000 on Christmas trees before Dec. 25. At the Wabash Railroad concentration point at 27th Street & Ashland Avenue, he will appear daily to auction his trees by carload or by bundle to wholesale or retail buyers. His voice may be drowned out by that of his rival, Izzy Cloobeck, who can be heard...
Before Maine's blight five years ago most trees went to Chicago from the East. Now more than half of them go from Montana and Washington, with a sprinkling of what Chicago Christmas tree merchants call "garbage" from the cut-over land of Michigan and Wisconsin. As in the East, the favorite tree is the luxuriant and fragrant balsam fir, with spruce, still considered the only real Christmas tree in the South, a bad second. Exclusive with Gust Relias are colored Christmas trees, sprayed green or silver at his shipping point, Eureka, Mont...
...Nightmares half the night from sampling B---'s wretched cheese. In one dream I am driving with my love when, as I turn to caress her cheek, a tree looms up and smashes us hard. My love into thin air, and I, dazed, behind the wheel. The car falls apart, and I find myself stretched upon the ground. Some one rolls me over and says I am dead, which I want to deny but can't. So I think I must be dead too. An ambulance whisks my body to the morgue, where I am laid on a cold slab...