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Life is Crude. There is nothing much to do except to work hard all day, then go to bed. Up at five o'clock, the troops eat a breakfast which may consist of French toast, Karo syrup, sausages and coffee. The world's loveliest sunrise is golden and purple and leaden. As soon as light appears ("back over there where home is") a faint flush of warmth pushes back the cool of night. By eight o'clock it is hot and sticky. Standard dress is a pair of khaki shorts, nothing more. The soldiers, sailors and marines...
Corn Products Refining, world's biggest corn grinder (Argo starches, Karo corn syrup, Mazola oil), reported a nine-month net of $8,339,192, compared to $5,373,070 for the first three quarters...
...diatherms, sunlamps), corsets, books. Since the establishment of a Committee on Foods, which under Dr. Fishbein's control passes on the health claims of food processors, food advertising in the Journal mounted. Current users of full pages include General Foods (Postum, Post's Whole Bran), Corn Products (Karo Syrup), Knox Sparkling Gelatine, Best Foods (Nucoa Oleomargarine), Dole Hawaiian Pineapple Juice. Chevrolet and Buick are the only motor cars bidding for doctors' business. By advertisements, demonstrations at medical meetings and by packages sent to doctors' offices, Philip Morris has almost succeeded in identifying its brand...
Pekin sits on the Illinois River ten miles below Peoria in the heart of the corn belt. Corn Products Refining Co. uses the corn to make Karo Syrup. The American Distilling Co. uses it to make Old Colony Gin. The American Distilling Co. employes are organized into a company union and an American Federation of Labor union. Last August an A. F. of L. man, employed as an engineer, was discharged for letting a vat of mash boil over. Fellow unionists protested. The man was rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which...
...price paid for corn normally represents 60% of the production costs of Corn Products Refining Co. (corn starch, Karo corn syrup. Mazola oil, corn derivatives). With 1934 corn prices substantially higher than last year's, it reported half-year profits of only $4,402,000 against $5,188,000 for the first half...