A 46-year-old Texas farmer, Shannon went into the grain business, and he and his wife helped pour the concrete for his first grain elevator ... In his spare time, Shannon wrote and started ...

5,400), Frank and James Spellman were doing nicely buying, selling and trucking grain. Then they expanded, and bought a grain elevator ... series of grain scandals (TIME, Jan. 28) that may ...

There was a time when grain was a staple of the ... any of what’s coming down is a century old, Galveston as a port is ...