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Meanwhile, Poultryman Cannaday's 1,700 Leghorns were producing their pre-rebellion quota of 80 doz. eggs daily, only production drop noted being just after an air raid when the hens were frightened. Anarchist collectivizers eyed the farm jealously once, but Cannaday remained unintimidated. Believer in the profit system, respecter of the law of supply & demand, he continued to sell his wares to hungry Madrileños, paying little heed to Leftist Spain's campaign to outlaw profiteering, fix prices...
Last year some 1,600,000 doz. golf balls were sold in the U. S. at a retail price of $9 a doz., wholesale of $5.60. To help finance its services, most of which are offered free, PGA sells golf balls through its members. The Golf Ball Manufacturers' Association includes many top-rank U. S. makers of sporting goods* and, according to the FTC, its members own or control almost every U. S. golf ball factory. Each member company in the association makes a number of balls stamped PGA which are usually of higher quality than balls bearing other...
...spring and autumn, the blood worm in deep summer. Few years ago when salt water worms were rare, fishermen in Long Island Sound were willing to pay as much as 75? a dozen for them. Standard price in this year's well-organized market is 35? per doz...
...Tulsa, Okla., a group of domestic science teachers, doctors and socialites ate crow at a formal dinner to prove that crow is good to eat. Local market price for crow: $1.50 a doz...
...pews at the back designed especially for their use. Over the "Great Door" at the West end was perhaps an organ gallery, evidences of which could be brought to light by careful search. The lighting was of course by candlelight, and in 1745 we find bills for "1 Doz. Tin Candlesticks" and "2 Wooden Screws for standing part of said Candlesticks...