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...they cannot deny paternity for the other. . . . For ten years we expanded far beyond our natural and normal growth. . . . Corporate profit was enormous. . . . The consumer was forgotten . . . the worker was forgotten . . . the stockholder was forgotten. Enormous corporate surpluses . . . went into new and unnecessary plants, which now stand stark and idle, and into the call money market of Wall Street...
...situations. A few vegetables, a few soft heads, it was the usual time had by all in the usual manner. But tragedy stalked from Billings to Stover. The law injected a sordid note when the first cop pulled the first tear bomb. What had been valor and pleasantry became stark and earnest and the Freshmen wished they had never left home...
Last week President Edgar Winfred Stark of Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co., Louisiana. Mo.,* flourished the papers which gave him the first patent in the world on a fruit tree. It covers his Hal-Berta giant peach tree. The Hal-Berta, President Stark excitedly sets forth, "bears uniformly large, rosy-cheeked, delicious to eat, yellow-fleshed, freestone peaches, many of them weighing more than a pound, ripening a few days after the Hale-Elberta [peach] season when a truly high quality peach such as the Hal-Berta Giant will mean profit to the man who grows them and pleasure...
...When Luther Burbank died he directed that his entire business be taken over by Stark Brothers. Later the Burbank flowers were sold to W. Atlee Burpee Co. of Philadelphia (TIME, Sept. 21). Stark Brothers retained the fruits...
...weeks Honolulu seethed with unrest. Dan Campbell, United Pressman, was threatened with death for cabling the mainland truthfully stark accounts of conditions. Native attacks on white women became so prevalent, protection by the native police appeared so ineffective and bungling, that admirals in charge at Pearl Harbor publicly announced that Oahu was unsafe for the wives of naval officers. Then came the Kahahawai murder?apparently a blinding flash of white revenge...