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...world's largest grocer, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. sells one out of every seven cups of coffee in the U.S., one out of every 14 pounds of butter, and one out of every 28 eggs. Of every dollar the U.S. spends on food, about 10? is passed over A & P counters-a massive yearly total of $2.9 billion. Next to General Motors, the A & P sells more goods than any other company in the world...
...growth was just beginning. Mindful of George's early success with the baking powder, the brothers decided they could sell even cheaper by making still more of their goods. They started "Quaker Maid" factories to make A & P's own "Ann Page" preserves, peanut butter, etc. They set up their own American Coffee Corp. to buy direct from the growers in Brazil and Colombia. Still trying to eliminate middlemen, they set up their own Atlantic Commission Co. to buy the stores' produce. They started their own bakeries, candy and pastry shops to turn out everything from...
...most other Americans. They found that prim-mouthed Philadelphia was the nation's biggest market for dried prunes, and ate more ice cream per capita than any other city in the world. Richmond liked "triple succotash," a mixture of lima beans, corn and potatoes; Scranton, Pa. bought more butter per capita than any other city...
...reception, he did his best to make up for his shadow's overzealousness. The Russian delegation had pointedly refrained from applause, and Vishinsky, when the President was introduced to the delegates, hesitated until the last second before shaking hands. But after a U.N. birthday cake (a rum and butter cake which bore five candles) was cut, and champagne poured, Truman walked across to the Soviet Foreign Minister, shook hands with him again and spent seven minutes in animated and obviously pleasant conversation...
Said Fairless: "The average price of all the finished steel we have sold this year has been just under a nickel a pound, and some of our products now sell at less than 3½? . . . What else in the world can you buy for 3½? a pound? Eggs, butter, meat? . . . There is literally nothing in our grocery store at home that Mrs. Fairless can buy for as little as 3½? a pound ... If you lived among the cliff dwellers of New York City, and if you wanted a little potting soil to put around your geranium plants...