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National Biscuit made $9,986,000 in 1935 compared to $11,597,000 in 1934. This was the worst year since 1923 for the world's largest biscuit company, which also makes candy, peanut butter, macaroni, ice cream cones and Shredded Wheat. National Biscuit's earnings have declined every year since their 1930 peak of $22,879,000. Processing taxes and increased competition from independents were major causes of last year's profit decline. The taxes increased manufacturing costs and the competition held down biscuit prices. National Biscuit got back some $1,000,000 of impounded processing...
Products of Dominions & Colonies praised by the King-Emperor included Jamaican eggplant, Irish bacon, Rhodesian tobacco, Kenya coffee, Australian butter and sealskin slippers from New Zealand, of which His Majesty said, accepting a pair, "I think they will be very warm, comfortable and useful. All my brothers have gloves of sealskin...
...records for total milk production and total butterfat production have always been held by different cows. Last week a purebred Holstein on Carnation Co.'s experimental dairy farm near Seattle finished a year's test which set new world records in both classifications. The cow: Carnation Ormsby Butter King, known to her attendant as Daisy. In 365 days Daisy produced 38,606.6 Ib. of milk and 1,420 Ib. of butterfat. That was equal to nearly 18,000 quarts and 1,750 lb. of butter.* Daisy was milked four times every 24 hours by Carnation's able...
...Prime dairy statistics: 1 qt. of milk weighs 2.15 Ib.; 1 Ib. of butterfat equals 1.25 Ib. of butter...
Bread 40? per loaf, butter $2 per lb., coffee $4 per lb., sugar 35? per lb. and the cheapest cigarets $1 for 20. Foreigners and Russians alike now pay these prices, established not by haphazard Capitalist supply & demand but by scientific Communist planning...