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The Puritan Ice Companies : The Ice Empire of California's Central Coast by David Petry is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Puritan Ice Companies : The Ice Empire of California's Central Coast about?
The Puritan Ice Companies operated at Santa Barbara from 1922 to 1986, opening the vegetable markets in the Santa Maria and Lompoc Valleys to wide distribution by pioneering the use of refrigerated railcars. Puritan ran the world's largest poultry plant and, during the World War II homefront era of the 1940s, was pivotal in facilitating Mexican labor in California, expanding vegetable and melon markets at Blythe and providing ice for General Patton's Army Desert Training Center near Indio. The r
Who reads The Puritan Ice Companies : The Ice Empire of California's Central Coast?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- David Petry
- Publisher
- Arcadia Publishing
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781609498771
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- Business, History, Management
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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