Word: byproducts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegate to last week's Congress: "Poultry produces enough dollars every year to make the income of U.S. Steel Corp. look like chicken feed." He might have added that it is not much more profitable as a business. As long as three out of four eggs are a byproduct of general farming-produced with little direct cost-competition keeps prices down to a level where there is little profit in the business for most specialists...
Homeward bound on the Pennsylvania one night, an idea struck him. In the arid west, where the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation has for years provided water and sometimes generated power as a byproduct, Bond & Share units have bought this public power and transmitted it to their own customers over their own lines. Why could not Bond & Share keep Bonneville and Grand Coulee from building transmission lines by the same means? Why not buy their power and distribute it, dovetailing public power plants with private transmission lines and private meters...
...radio education, The Rockefeller Foundation in September 1937 set up the Princeton Radio Research Project, gave it $67,000 to cover an anticipated two years' work. To its basic problem the project has not yet found all the answers. But it has turned up a mass of "byproduct" information about listener habits, types, preferences. So interesting were some of these by-product findings that The Journal of Applied Psychology delayed publication of its February issue until last month, built an all-radio issue around them...
...latter's name in a deep valley just above Redding, Calif. Since 1866 engineers have dreamed of throwing up a dam below the rivers' confluence, to stabilize the water supply of the whole fertile Sacramento Valley. Besides irrigation and flood control, hydroelectric power would be a byproduct, perhaps making profitable the mining of iron ores now locked in the wild Siskiyou Mountains north of Shasta...
...tannery, now buys a million or more hides a year for International Shoe Co. Miss Fitzgerald, like most other representatives of big tanneries and shoe companies, does her buying in Chicago, centre of the packing industry of which cattle hides are a $100,000,000-a-year byproduct...