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The Onion Futures Act is a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as "motion picture box office receipts". [1] In 1955, two onion traders, Sam Siegel and Vincent Kosuga, cornered the onion futures market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The resulting regulatory actions led to the passing of the act on ...
Vincent W. Kosuga (January 17, 1915 – January 19, 2001) [1] was an American onion farmer and commodity trader best known for manipulating the onion futures market.Public outcry over his practices led to the passing of the Onion Futures Act, which banned the trading of futures contracts on onions.
Burger King released a statement Thursday saying, "There is no crossover with McDonald's for the vast majority of our onion facilities," but added, "About 5% of our restaurants do receive onions ...
The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether Taylor Farms, a supplier for McDonald’s, is the possible source of the E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder hamburgers, which has ...
On 2,700 acres in Los Olivos, 40 miles outside Santa Barbara, the King of Pop's Neverland Ranch, now the Sycamore Valley Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch up for sale for a whopping $100 million ...
Antje Paarlberg née Waagmeester (16 February 1808 – 28 October 1885) is known as the inspiration for the novel So Big.Chicago area author Edna Ferber used South Holland, Illinois, its pioneers and onion farms as background for her 1924 novel about an ambitious widow in a Midwestern Dutch American farming community.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that slivered onions served on McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers and other menu items were the likely source of an E. coli ...
Since the 1830s, when Chicago enjoyed a brief period of importance as a local milling center for spring wheat, the city has long been a center for the conversion of raw farm products into edible goods. [2] Since the 1880s, Chicago has also been home to firms in other areas of the food processing industry, including cereals, baked goods, and ...