RALEIGH, N.C. — The traditional chants of the tobacco auctioneer will be silent when flue-cured tobacco markets open this week, replaced by the soft clicks of handheld computers. A farmers cooperative ...
BUXTON, N.D. -- There is more to an auctioneer's chant than you might think, 28-year auctioneering veteran Darrel Yoder says. Things like clarity, fill-in words and momentum all add up to that ...
WILSON, N.C. -- The procession snakes its way around the burlap-wrapped piles of tobacco like some giant, many-headed caterpillar. Auctioneer Walter Wilkerson, echoing a chant perfected during the ...
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DANVILLE, Ky. -- Tripp Foy's sing-song chant rang out like a sentimental oldie for die-hard farmers clinging to the old way of selling tobacco, as a small procession of buyers shadowed ...
In a voice which would have made even the Gettysburg Address sound like the chant of a tobacco auctioneer, the clerk of the U.S. Senate droned out the message which President Truman and his aides had ...
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