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...Perfectly Moonstruck." While President Monroe was pondering this prospect, Britain's Foreign Minister George Canning proposed a joint declaration by the U.S. and British governments warning the European powers against any attempt to reconquer Spanish America...
...Canning was no friend of republican revolutions, but he valued the profitable trade between Britain and the new nations of Latin America. The U.S. Minister in London laid down a condition: Britain would first have to recognize the independence of the former Spanish colonies. Canning bluntly balked...
...Reported President Max Jaeger of the Food Service Executives Association, Inc., at the association's convention in New Orleans last week: 37% of the food eaten in the U.S. is now prepared by professionals-in hotels, restaurants, the armed forces, freezing plants or canning factories. Professional food preparation has boiled up 27% in the last 20 years. The result: a shortage of good chefs and cooks...
...persuade soft-drink manufacturers that their ads ought to feature happy citizens swigging their soda pop from cans, both American Can and Continental Can offered an advertising rebate of 5? per case to those who switched to cans. Since local bottlers might not be able to afford their own canning equipment, American Can financed strategically placed canneries across the country...
...after his ship. John Boit, fifth mate of the Columbia, wrote prophetically that "This River in my opinion, wou'd be a fine place for to sett up a Factory." The Columbia became a vital artery of the region's fur trade, and then of the salmon-canning and lumber industries, but only in the 1930s, with the construction of a series of big power dams on the Columbia, beginning with Grand Coulee, did men really begin to tap the Northwest's great industrial potential. The new treaty opens the way to further development of that potential...