In the pre-dawn hours of a Saturday morning in 1937, 24-year-old Victor Weaver and his wife, Edith, loaded 17 dressed chickens into the trunk of their 1936 Hudson Terraplane. They had prepared the chickens the prior afternoon in their small farmhouse kitchen in Blue Ball, Pennsylvania.
They took their cargo to the Sharon Hill Farmers Market, near Philadelphia. They returned to Blue Ball with an empty trunk, a little bit of cash and plans for weekly runs to Sharon Hill.
In the short space of a few months, the husband-and-wife team was processing 200 chickens a week for their blossoming business. They had outgrown the farmhouse, so they moved to nearby New Holland and hired an employee, Ben Burkholder, to help dress the birds and tend the market stand.
Mar 12, 2021
Mar 12, 2021
Here we are, a year after COVID-19 began halting life as we knew it in the U.S. and the world, and it seems as though life is closer than ever to becoming normal again.
Three COVID-19 vaccines are currently in use in the U.S. and the Biden Administration has pushed up vaccine distribution and manufacturing efforts to a point that his COVID-19 Response Team said that, by the end of July, every resident of the U.S. could be fully-vaccinated.
That is positive news for a chaotic time, no doubt.
However, we urge all elected officials to step back, take a deeper look at the coronavirus and use caution, particularly Gov. Jim Justice.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Trade between the United Kingdom and the European Union was hammered in the first month of their new post-Brexit relationship, with record falls in British exports and imports of goods as COVID-19 restrictions continued on both sides.
FILE PHOTO: A truck drives towards the entrance to the Port of Dover, following the end of the Brexit transition period, in Dover, Britain, January 15, 2021. REUTERS/John Sibley
British goods exports to the EU, excluding non-monetary gold and other precious metals, slumped by 40.7% in January compared to December, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday. Imports fell by 28.8% - another record.
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