Article: Looking backward into the future. (wine industry)

The October 1928 edition opens on a dirge. "POOR DEMAND FOR CALIFORNIA'S 1928 JUICE GRAPES." Unknown to many people, the Depression did not wait for the stock market crash but went rippling along as a partial result of the great world-wide farm depression and more immediately as a result of The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930 which shut off international trade. At least that is my theory and remembrance. (Incidentally, Reed Smoot was the father-in-law of hotel tycoon Marriott and the first Mormon to be elected to the U.S. senate.)

Editor Stoll is quite blunt. "There is just one answer to the whole situation: the barrels of the Eastern householders (thank God he ...

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