Word: growers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Chancery Court at Birmingham. Ala., last week. The charges: desertion and cruelty. The complainant: "Miss Southern Democracy." Excerpts from her petition: "Your complainant and your respondent [Heflin] were married to each other in the fall of the year 1894 at Lafayette where the respondent was a lowly cotton grower and where your complainant first elevated him to the rank of a public officer. . . . The respondent was a model husband and his courtship at Lafayette was swift and ardent. . . . "Beginning in the spring of 1928 this respondent began to stay out late at night and was often seen in the company...
...Tapping in May. If every grower who promises to refrain from tapping rubber trees during May keeps his word, rubber production for the month should be down 50%, for the year, 3%. So the Rubber Growers Association of Great Britain predicted when last week it announced that 80% of the British and Dutch growers in the Far East had assented. But dealers, knowing that active growers have never shown interest in curtailment, are skeptical, expect only a temporary effect in the rubber market...
...Miller's discovery. Over and over cotton planters have heard that their only salvation lies in crop limitation. It remained for the Mississippi State Senate to take the first definite step in that direction by passing a bill (the House had yet to act) providing that no grower could plant more than 60% of his total crop acreage in any one year in cotton, under a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine or three months in the county jail. Mississippi does not, however, intend to cut its cotton production singlehanded. Its law would become effective only when other...
...Foremost of the Pear Orchard" was Mei Lan-fang of Peiping. Despite his titles, he was neither a monk nor a fruit-grower. Numerous Chinamen and Seattle dignitaries who met him at the boat welcomed him as China's greatest actor, come to introduce his art to the U. S. Mei Lan-fang and his company begin a U. S. tour in Manhattan...
Vincent Astor, Manhattan realtor and apple grower, won a prize for growing and packing the fruit on his Rhinecliff estate, at the Poughkeepsie Exhibition of the New York State Horticultural Society...