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...million deficit. In answer The Economist recently showed that if the whole of all British incomes of $8,000 yearly and over should be taken by the State-which already takes from 37½% to 80%-Sir John would reap only an additional ?60 millions. Mere chicken feed -and of a kind to poison those bourgeois pullets who lay so many golden Treasury eggs...
...triumph. Despite the competition of big firms such as H. J. Heinz Co., Beechnut, Libby, McNeill & Libby, Inc., his firm claims 25% of the industry's yearly $15,000,000 gross business, runs a dead heat with Heinz for first place. Some 35% of U. S. babies feed on prepared baby food. Fields as yet untapped (aside from the rest of the infants) are the stomach ailment trade and oldsters who may need a strained food line of their...
...Britain now has some 4,000,000 more mouths to feed (omitting all Irish) than in 1914. Her food imports of ?295,000,000 in 1914 rose to ?431,000,000 in 1939 while total home food production rose only from...
Mayor F. H. La Guardia of New York City said in a speech today that "you cannot feed people on epigrams, no matter hew snappy they are." and the 1940 Presidential candidates "semingly cannot be specific" on national issues...
...something tangible--a comprehensive program of social and economic changes designed for the emergency and directed toward reform and recovery. On Election Day 1940 the people will not lightly cast aside that administration for one which offers nothing but platitudes and denunciations. It takes more than semantics to feed a nation...