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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...businessman, temporarily turned ECA official, looked up from his crop reports and exultantly pointed out some world food facts: wheat fields all over Europe are rich with promise; ECA countries' estimated crop of 30 million metric tons is only 5% under prewar production; the U.S., with the second-largest crop in its history-and some help from Canada-can make up what Europe needs...
...Boston last week, Ginn & Co., largest publisher of schoolbooks in the U.S., rushed a revision of its bestselling World Geography by Geologist John Hodgdon Bradley. Texas, which would use 10,000 copies of the book, had objected to some of the nice things Bradley (an exmarine) had to say about Russia, when he wrote the book in 1945. The new World Geography for Texas, with the author's consent, would call Russia the "biggest" instead of the "greatest" nation in Europe, reduce the Soviet government's achievements from "mighty" to "considerable," downgrade Russia's claim to warm...
...table already loaded with $12 million worth of recently bought companies, Lever Bros. President Charles Luckman this week tossed a $10 million newcomer: the John F. Jelke Co., sixth largest* U.S. maker of oleomargarine (Good Luck). Said "Chuck" Luckman: "That will be all for a while, until we digest what we've already...
...Elisha Otis' tiny workshop in Yonkers, N.Y. grew the Otis Elevator Co., the world's largest. It has built more than half (128,918) of the elevators in the U.S. (224,417), has sold 69,000 elevator installations abroad. Last year it grossed $61 million, in March had a backlog of more than $100 million in orders...
...largest: The Best Foods, Inc.'s Nucoa...