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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie Brannan was piqued. The American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation's largest and most potent farm group, had not even invited him to be a speaker at its 31st annual convention. Furthermore, the Secretary of Agriculture was pretty sure that the federation was preparing to crunch his controversial farm-support plan like so much Shredded Wheat and douse it with sour milk...
...Hennig was fined ?281,175 ($787,290), one of the largest fines ever handed out in a London court; two company officers were sent to jail. When Winston and Parser appeared in court to claim their part of the shipment of diamonds, worth ?26,134, they were cleared of any blame, but the gems were confiscated...
Even though the grocery business stands near its alltime high, sales-sharp Nathan Cummings, chairman of the giant Consolidated Grocers Corp., thought there was something wrong. He felt that neither he nor the grocers were selling enough food. To find out how to boost sales, the boss of the largest U.S. food wholesaling organization packed a sample case eight weeks ago and took off on a tour of hundreds of stores in ten states. He frequently donned a cotton coat and worked for stores behind the counters, "cut the cans" (gave out free samples), watched shoppers' buying habits...
This public relations organization, probably the largest in the world, is called the Information Services Division (Branch in Austria). In addition to its outlets it maintains sizable staffs of photographers to catch favorable happenings such as the arrival of CARE packages or Generals shaking hands with Burgemeisters...
...head of Japan's largest university has been in the country for a week attending conferences under the auspices of the United States Government, but he is visiting Harvard...