Dream Reaper Chronicle of a Kansas Farmer Inventor
The book follows Burr Oak farmer Mark Underwood who ideated a superior bi-rotor combine while farming in central Kansas. His cousin Ralph Lagergren funded and promoted the project, with the work chronicled by Craig Canine as it neared an assembly line milestone and a deal to sell rights to John Deere.
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Wichrita
Mark Underwood
Kansas
Underwood
Alfred A. Knopf
Craig Canine
Des Moines
Iowa
Ralph Lagergren
Ross Perot
Sam Walton
Combine
Great Plains
Canine
Caterpillar
Underwood and Lagergren
John Deere and Co
Local sales tax slump in Lawrence on weaker January turnout
Lawrence reporting a 28 percent drop in January sales tax from a year earlier with about 673000 collected versus 934000. Officials attribute the decline to one fewer weekend and note broader regional trends, while optimistic about steady retail growth as employment improves.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Tax time trap in mutual fund reinvestment years
A lessons on reinvested dividends and capital gains distributions. The example shows a $30,000 gain taxed at 28 percent would be $5,600, not $8,400, because reinvested earnings are treated as new money. Keep meticulous records and verify foreign tax credits when funds invest abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Sky
the Limit Mutual Fund
Uncle Sam
Daily Market Quotes From Farm, Livestock And Metals
Farmer's Cooperative and Midland elevators post grain prices with wheat corn milo and soybeans. Livestock markets in Omaha St Joseph Kansas City report hogs cattle and sheep activity with price bands and week totals. nonferrous metals and precious metals prices listed for Friday including copper aluminum lead zinc tin gold silver and platinum.
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Farmer's Cooperative Assn
South
Milo
Midland
North
Oman, Nes
Uspa
Omaha
U.S
Handy, & Harman
Handy & Harman
Tecks Build Largest McDonalds Play Place in Valley
Steve and Donna Teck plan a 2000 square foot indoor Play Place in Los Angeles San Fernando Valley opening in late March. The 100 child capacity facility features tunnels slides and a ball pit as chains race to install two to three story soft play areas nationwide to attract families amid a baby boom and rising competition.
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Steve Teck
Donna
Los Angeles
San Fernando Valley
Tecks
McDonald’s Corp
Oakbrook
Ill
Burger King Corp
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Carl's Jr
Anaheim
Calif
Small Firms Rally Beats Giants On U S Stock Exchanges
Small companies have outperformed Dow components in the past month with the Russell 2000 rising more in percentage terms than the Dow. Investors weigh whether a shift to domestic-focused, risk-tolerant bets signals a lasting change in market leadership amid optimism over profit growth and a stronger economy.
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America
Davids
Goliaths
U.S
Venture Stores Inc
Sears Roebuck & Co
TeleFile service targets students for phone tax filing
High school and college students may file by phone if single with no dependents and income under 50000, receiving the YebFile booklet. The call lasts about ten minutes. Commodity exchanges worldwide race to merge or link contracts to raise trading volume, with NYMEX and HKFE agreeing to grant HKEx members access to NYMEX after hours by 1996.
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New York Mercantile Exchange
Hong Kong Futures Exchange
Hong Kong Exchange
Nymex
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Kansas Farmer
Richard Gwin
Journal-World Photo
Gary Yoebben
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
the Revenue Department
Baldwin
Eudora
Tonganoxie
Ottawa
Perry
Toebben
Wall Street
Main Street
Omaha Livestock
Dodge City Livestock
Dopce Crrv
New York
London
N.Y
N.a
Los Angeles Daily News
Discovery Zone
Chuck E. Cheese’s
The
Associated Press
Henry Otto
Brandywine Asset Management Inc
Russell
Dow Industrials
Dow
Thomas Larsen
Desai Capital Management
Jim Oberweis
Oberweis Asset Management
IRS
Dilbert
Asoe
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