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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.
The 12,000 square-foot home where Michael Jackson and his numerous exotic animals once lived is now on the market. On 2,700 acres in Los Olivos, 40 miles outside Santa Barbara, the King of Pop's ...
Jeff Tanenbaum, president of ThreeSixty Asset Advisors, was grilled by lawyers for Jones and the company in a Houston courtroom over how The Onion’s bid came to be valued at $7 million and why a ...
A company affiliated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones asked a federal judge on Monday to disqualify a bid by the satirical news outlet The Onion to buy Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction ...
Erika Allen was provided resources from the now-closed Iron Street farm, and also received a donation from an unnamed funder. She used these resources to create a seven-acre farm in South Chicago located on 90th St. and Lake Shore Drive. This South Chicago farm remains the largest farm that is run by Urban Growers Collective. [3]
Produce company Taylor Farms has issued a voluntary recall on raw onions in connection with a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's quarter pounders. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
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.