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...just as easy to buy a carload of butter (19,200 lb.) as a carload of eggs (12,000 doz.), yet amateur speculators almost always prefer eggs. They know that when hens are not well fed in the great egg districts of the Midwest they seldom lay eggs. And even a well-fed hen dislikes to lay eggs in very hot weather. What most amateur speculators do not know is that the leading trading medium is October eggs, which were all laid in March, April and May?before the drought seriously affected production. There are 9,000,000 cases...
...billion pounds of potatoes, etc. But when it came to milk the U. S. would have been 13 billion quarts short; citizens could have got only about 55% of the leafy green vegetables due them. The nation would have had a shortage of 1,144,000,000 doz. eggs, of nearly 2 billion pounds of meat. And instead of getting if oz. of butter a day every citizen would have had to put up with half that, not to mention considerable shortages of tomatoes, oranges and various other vegetables and fruits...
...hosiery code's labor provisions. For months General Johnson has adjured the public to buy only Blue Eagle goods. His campaign was sufficiently effective for the Harriman mill to claim it could not work without a Blue Eagle, had, in fact, already lost an order for 30,000 doz. pairs of stockings placed by the State of Pennsylvania. NRA did not rejoice over its triumph. The mill with its 650 workers is practically the only industry at Harriman, Tenn. When, early this week, officials closed the mill, it looked as though the town would close too and Government relief...
...maker crochets them for 40? per doz. In a week she makes two dozen...
...There is no depression in the celluloid collar business. At least that was the opinion uttered last week by H. F. Gilmour, head of Stake Manufacturing Co. of Lincoln, Neb., one of the three U. S. concerns in the business. Reason for his cheer: a 250-doz. order from Africa...