Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.
It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.
