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...company was also short, had fluctuated violently. Soon the company found itself being slowly squeezed to death by a world-wide shortage of oils and fats which was aggravated when cottonseed oil output in the U. S. was cut by cotton acreage reduction, lard output by the corn-hog program, beef tallow by the Drought...
...trains, he founded Lionel Corp., produced a locomotive, coach and caboose operated by a dry battery for $6. Today, 35 years later, Lionel electric trains start, stop and reverse by remote control. One of President Cowen's prides is the fat 400E, a standard (2¾ in.) "hog," which, with tender, measures 30½ inches and sells...
Four summers ago Harvey Crowley Couch, public utilitarian and champion hog-caller of Pine Bluff, Ark. chanted that remedy for rural Depression up & down the land. Last week at Prattsville (pop.: 114) he summoned a meeting of farmers and their wives to announce a far-flung scheme for bringing electricity into 15,000 isolated Arkansas farm homes. He proposed that his company, Arkansas Power & Light, invest about $600 per home in transmission lines and equipment, while each farmer was to put $200 into lamps, irons, washing machines, water pumps. How were the farmers to raise the money? Why, said...
Cudahy. "Not since the company purchased its first carload of live stock over 47 years ago," declared Chairman Edward Aloysius Cudahy Sr., "has it been confronted with so many entirely new problems as during the past year. The processing tax on the live weight of hogs slaughtered . . . has cost us between nine and ten million dollars for the year. This in part was our contribution to the $101,945,334 which the AAA recently stated was paid to Corn-Hog Farmers up to Oct. 1. In view of the close association of our industry with agriculture ... it is especially gratifying...
...could not achieve last week the only simplicity that would work an instant miracle in Japan, the simplicity of announcing that, unless she contents herself with 5-5-3 and lives up to her treaty obligations regarding China, somebody will instantly declare against her either economic sanctions or war. Hog-tied by what seems to Japanese the incredible stupidity and cowardice of the English-speaking peoples, Mr. Davis could only say for President Roosevelt that Japan is on the verge of what may turn out, years hence, to be her greatest mistake. ''The fundamental issue in the naval conversations...