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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cackle of 10,000 assorted fowl, delegates from 45 foreign nations and poultry fanciers from 48 States began a ten-day chicken festival. No less than 150,000 congress tickets were sold to poultry raisers four months before the opening. By the fourth day attendance was 110,000; 500,000 poultry folk were expected in Cleveland before this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cacklefest | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...about 375,000,000 hens which produce an average of 36,000,000,000 eggs a year (less than an egg a day for each inhabitant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cacklefest | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Small farmers with flocks of less than 100 birds produce 75% of U.S. eggs. Farmers eat 34% of their flocks, 25% of their eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cacklefest | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...other commodities Japan might lose her U.S. market more or less completely but, except as Japan's domestic consumption of cotton fell off, U.S. cotton producers might not suffer: if Brazil, for example, sells cotton to Japan instead of Britain, the U.S. should be able to sell to Britain instead of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Economic War? | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...military and commercial airplanes in the air today, as well as many a foreign model. Comet has 6,000 dealers, 20 full-time salesmen, a branch and salesroom in Manhattan. Its models, ranging from the Dawn Patrol Fleet (retail price: five for 5?) to the Comet Clipper ($6.50, less motor), are sold all over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Model Business | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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