Word: canning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week this beautiful friendship ripened into marriage. For some $3,000,000 in its own stock, Hunt bought out California Conserving. This deal, Hunt's fourth and biggest packing company purchase in three years, made it the West Coast's biggest food-processing company. It has 16 canning plants (employing some 10,000 packers at peak season), about 70 products (including tomato sauce, canned fruits, vegetables and jellies, frozen foods), expects to gross at least $35,000,000 a year...
...fine). In the final game, Brooklyn's hotheaded Ed Stanky had his $50's worth of fun. He threw his hat high in the air after a called third strike, and Umpire Barr again did his duty as he saw it-thereby setting a new record for canning players from consecutive games...
Clear the Decks. In Portland, Ore., a woman asked her ration board for ten pounds of canning sugar for her nameless baby, explained: "The baby isn't born yet, but I want to get my canning done before I go to the hospital." Where There's Smoke. In Neosho Rapids, Kan., Farmer Ralph Blank, burn ing trash, watched a plane circle and land in a field nearby. The pilot, a cigaret dangling from his lips, approached and begged a light...
...those five years he has bought control of 80-year-old Sprague, Warner & Co. of Chicago, of Western Grocer Co., and of Marshall Canning Co. Last week for $7,000,000 he bought control of 92-year-old Reid, Murdoch & Co. and set up Consolidated Grocers Corp. to own and run his combine. He expects it to do $100,000,000 a year of the nation's $5 to $12 billion wholesale grocery business (depending on whose figures you prefer...
...this year (about 87% of last year's supply and 77% of 1941's). Worse still: because of excess consumption in the early months of this year, less than 47% of the civilian supply will remain for the last half of the year (which because of canning normally takes 55%). So there will be at least 30% less sugar available for civilians this fall than last...