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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, however, Swift & Co. an nounced new Swift products which well may add to the Swift family net profit. By means of a new quick-freezing process, fresh meats have been put on the market in the packaged and branded form long associated only with cured meats (ham, bacon). Thus the U. S. housewife may now telephone her butcher, order Swift pork chops, lamb chops, and pork tender loins, all neatly wrapped in parchment or cellophane, trimmed, ready to cook. Soon available will be sliced calf liver and beef liver, and packaged legs and shoulder of lamb. Eventually planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Billion Sales | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...should one accept no substitute but insist on the genuine but Bayer's Aspirin? What works while you sleep but Cascarets? These and many other household products belong to the Drug, Inc. family. So do 525 Liggett stores. So do 10,000 Rexall stores, which, though independently owned, market Drug, Inc.'s Rexall products. For Drug Inc. is a holding company for the United Drug Co. of Louis Kroh Liggett, combined with the onetime Sterling Products Co. (Feb. 1928) into the present drug chain which serves 25% of the U. S. public plus many a Canadian and Englishman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Drug Family | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...branch brokerage offices on ocean liners. De Saint Phalle & Co. will open offices on the French Line ships France, He de France and Paris. M. J. Meehan & Co. will locate on the Cunarder Berengaria and the U. S. liner Leviathan. Details of keeping ocean travelers in touch with market fluctuations have not been announced. Engineers of Radio Corp. of America, however, have been working on a radio ticker.. Particularly appropriate as a wireless brokerage would seem the Meehan ocean-going branches, as broker Mike Meehan is famed as specialist in Radio Corp. stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Floating Brokers | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...owns $50,000 worth of U. S. Steel common, he can readily and speedily realize on his holdings. For his shares have an instant market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Unfreezing Assets* | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...owns a $50,000 piece of real estate, he may have to sacrifice $20,000 or $25,000 for an immediate sale. His land has no immediate market. It is an asset, but it is a frozen asset. From a merchandising standpoint, the realtor handles an excellent product but is handicapped by a primitive distribution system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Unfreezing Assets* | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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