My grandfather owned a straw shell factory in America (not the country, but a small village in Northern Dutch Limburg) before the second world war. In addition to this straw shell factory, he also had a grain mill, lumberyard and a bicycle store.
Hay Mulders of the Heemkunde Vereniging Sevenum wrote an interesting article about it.
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