Across the country and serving about 35 of our landmass. Host could you name a couple of those companies to help us get familiar . Guest absolutely. We could go all the way to western south dakota by Mount Rushmore to visit golden west and we could go to citizens on the Mississippi River up in wisconsin where we got cooperatives and if you are in my state of virginia weve got scott county down in the very tip of the state serving the tristate area so ive got 850. Host when you talk about landmass you not talking landmass or population at all. Guest peter, you hit upon the key part of this. Its about 5 of the American Population but they are truly the providers in this extremely rural part of the country and everywhere from alaska down to the panhandle of florida so they stretched all across and it got everybody from someone who is got about 150 subscribers to probably my Largest Company has just about 100,000 subscribers. They are serving those areas with quite frankly the Bell Compani
Just for us. Its for. Beethoven his truck. Is for. Straight talking 202250th anniversary. Its a 20 Year Old Company thats never brought a Product Market German Biotech Firm cure vaca is now an investor darling as it races to develop a covert 1000. 00 vaccine will talk to its c. E. O. Also on the show wired hard gets the boot from germanys blue chip index its a place that might surprise you. And well look at an unsuccessful business idea from someone who hopes to take advantage of pandemic panic buyers. Into the show im susan busy in berlin the coronavirus pandemic is reshaping the biotech industry investors are piling into small often unproven companies in hopes they can produce a vaccine in the coming months those companies in turn are spending big to expand production for vaccines that are yet fully tested or certified its a gamble on both sides for both investor and company and reflects the urgency for a vaccine as well as the potential to make money. Gem in Pharmaceutical Company c
The two of them had known each other for quite some time. During world war i, Franken Roosevelt was the assistant secretary of the navy under woodrow wilson. Do you want to talk about what hoover did during world war i . Sure. Herbert hoover was the head of the u. S. Food administration. It had to essentially provide food to the soldiers going to europe and hoover was able to provide the necessary food by getting americans to voluntarily reduce consumption by 15 . He did this by appealing to american housewives to sign pledge cards where they would hooverize, which meant every day of the week, you gave up a certain essential component. Meat, wheat, sugar, fat. You had meatless mondays and wheatless wednesdays. Hoover was able to use that as a stopgap for growing the food steps foodstuffs were required. Fdr was very impressed with the work hoover had done. Franklin roosevelt was trying to convince hoover to become a democrat. There was some sense of maybe we can get him as part of our p
Have you with us the coronavirus pandemic is reshaping the biotech industry investors are piling into small often unproven companies in hopes that they can produce a vaccine in the coming months those companies in turn are spending big to expand production facilities for vaccines that arent yet fully tested or certified its a gamble for both investor and company and it reflects the urgency for a vaccine as well as the potential to make money. German Pharmaceutical Company cura voc 20 years old 480 employees and it dreams of change in the wild has its sights set on the most sought after of prizes a Coronavirus Vaccine and the newly listed company is making progress when went public in new york on friday it shares rose 249 percent during the 1st day of trading those who go to an alley may have struck it rich. Cura back is just one of many corporate vaccine hopefuls 170. 00 companies from all over the world including the us china japan the u. K. And india are also in the race. Last week r
Gloom out there. Were following the Airline Industry very closely as you know. Theyre looking for more aid, this time in the form of direct government grants here. The talk is how are they going to get that . The question, how much. Jetblue, robin hayes, what the significance of the flying industry is going through now. Jetblue has been able to fly over the turbulence. There is something that must be going on that were missing. Were looking what is happening at colleges now. The university of North Carolina at chapel hill. Kids were congregating, going to bars and parties. Not exactly social distancing. Now that university among some others that goes from inperson to virtual classes. Iona colleges president is with us, how that school is avoiding all of that. Meantime were focused on day two of the Democratic Convention as stuart was highlighting. The president has his own plans, continuing to visit battleground states that could turn the tide on this contest, still 76 days away. Blake