"We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant."

Orville Redenbacher, American Businessman

Food, Day, Night

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"We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant."

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"In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage."

Depression

"We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets."

Quality

"We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn."

Money

"I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business."

Business

"Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets."

Competition

"It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone."

Rights

"Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them."

Attention

"I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents."

Office

"The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle."

Influence

"I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms."

Management