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...Ira C. Cardiff is boss of the biggest dried apple plant in Washington's Yakima Valley. A onetime biology professor, he is also a philosopher who corresponded for years with Santayana, and the author of half a dozen books ranging from A Million Years of Human Progress to What Great Men Think of Religion (he is an atheist). But among businessmen of Yakima, Cardiff is best known for his relentless war with inspectors of the federal Food & Drug Administration. In a series of battles, boasts Cardiff, "I've licked 'em every time...
...Ira Cardiff got into the apple business as a Ph.D. from Columbia who went to Washington to run the state's agricultural testing station. He soon saw that the future of the apple industry lay in dried fruit, and took over the Yakima Valley's biggest packing plant. His first brush with the Government was over a rigid Agriculture Department ruling on how much arsenic spray could be left on apples and pears put on sale. Cardiff, arguing for more arsenic, led a five-year fight to get the Agriculture Department to relax the regulation, and finally...
...other members of the forum--Max Shulman and Ira Wallach--disagreed with Capp, and the by-products of the conflict kept a capacity Rindge Tech audience chuckling for two hours...
...Shulman and Ira Wallach are the two other writers on the program. Shulman has written about the army and mid-western college life. Some of his books are "Zebra Derby," "The Feather Merchants," and "Barefoot Boy With Cheek...
...Ira Wallach is a newcomer into the comedy field. He has written two volumes of parodies, "Hopalong Freud" and "Hopalong Freud Rides Again...