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Barnaby will seed the top players and will try to spread the known outstanding players as equitably as possible...
Feeding & Breeding. Jewell was practically forced into the chicken business after he went to work selling feed in his mother's feed, seed and fertilizer business. When he couldn't sell the feed to the poor farmers of the area, he borrowed $6,000 from a local bank, raised a flock of chickens on the unsold feed, and sold them at a profit...
...with the U.S. had given the Philippines the bloom of apparent health, but it was a hectic flush: the islands were not prepared to stand on their own economic feet. The sugar kings and wealthy traders had prospered, but thousands of tenant farmers were left in discontented peonage. The seed of freedom had sprouted, but the soil of order on which freedom must grow had been neglected. Above all, in setting a target date for independence so far in advance, the U.S. had not reckoned on World...
...work selling securities in Wall Street. In 1934, when a tariff sent the price of Italian tomatoes skyrocketing, Tillie began to think of growing them in the U.S. Everybody told her it was impossible ("the soil isn't right"). But on a trip to Italy, she got seed and talked an Italian importer into staking $50,000 on a project to grow them in California. There, she persuaded farmers to undertake the experiment. It succeeded; pear-shaped tomatoes now make up about 10% of California's crop. To can the tomatoes, Tillie talked Pacific Can Co. into building...
This dangerous seed sprouted strongly in the Mound D village. Generation after generation, its priests grew more despotic. More & more elaborate grew the curious pottery that was the ritual furniture of the religion from across the sea. Some of the pots represented animals, both realistic and stylized. Others were abstract shapes like Japanese lanterns or spheres pierced with holes...