Word: food
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Sir Auckland Geddes, Wartime Minister of National Service, onetime Ambassador to the U. S., did not tranquilize the atmosphere when he told British housewives that they ought to put some things away for a bomby day. Not only should they store food; they should also store water in bottles and jugs. In order not to upset the commodity markets, he said, they should buy very slowly and calmly. English housewives are literal-minded. Next day merchants reported sales of canned goods and water jugs falling...
Last July VR6AY, Pitcairn Island, informed W21XY, Queens, Long Island, that ships were avoiding Pitcairn because of false rumor of typhoid, and that the islanders needed food and medicines. W21XY (Radio Amateur Dorothy Hall of Queens) got in touch with Manhattan' British Consulate, got help started for Pitcairn (TIME, Aug. 1). Since then she and W2KSZ (Victor DeGhett of Brooklyn) have kept in regular touch with the island...
That agriculture in the United States, as well as in other countries, had developed a surplus of farmers, was reported today in the "Harvard Business Review" by Dr. Joseph S. Davis, Director of the Food Research Institute, Stanford University, and formerly Chief Economist of the Federal Farm Board. Dr. Davis presented an analysis of "Agriculture and the Nation's Business...
...Arnold Sprague bumped out to Chicago in a covered wagon and went into the grocery trade. With his brother and another Vermonter, Ezra J. Warner, he formed the wholesale house of Sprague, Warner & Co., which grew with lusty young Chicago. Sprague Warner was a pioneer in the packaging of food, and its Richelieu brands became more famous than the hotel for which they were named.* By the time the second Ezra J. Warner died in 1933, Sprague Warner was a far-flung manufacturing and wholesale house, as prestigious as Manhattan's Charles & Co. or Boston...
Some products sell particularly well in depressions: neckties-because they are a cheaper way of sprucing up than new suits of clothes; cans-because canned food is generally cheaper than fresh. From an announcement last week by the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange, it appears that coffee may also belong in this special group. As it has in several depression years since 1929, U. S. coffee consumption last year set a new high. The 1938 figure was 14.38 lbs. per person, up 1.34 lb. since...