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...three years to train a hand worker on his job; anyone can run the Pitter with two or three hours training. About 60% of the 1935 peach pack (10,000,000 cases) was halved and pitted on this machine. A third machine automatically stems, cores, peels and halves pears. It operates from ten to twelve times as fast as the hand worker. Though introduced only in the 1934 season, the Pear Machine this year handled more than one third of western canned pears. (Total pack: 4,500,000 cases...
...machinery companies. Food Machinery Corp. somewhat resembles, on smaller scale, United Shoe Machinery Corp., particularly since many of its most important items are not sold but leased. Food Machinery leases the Color Process (orange packers pay 2? a case), the milk sterilizer (2? a case), the Peach Pitter, the Pear Machine. Last week Food Machinery announced that its sales for 1935 (year ending Sept. 30) were up 29% from 1934; its lease income up 70%. Sales were $6,486,000; lease-income was $1,041,000, not counting the partly-owned Peach Pitter; total income $7,528,000. Net income...
...David Christian Crummey looked after profit-&-loss. Present head of the company is John David Crummey, David Christian's son, who at 57 has been a Methodist Sunday School teacher for 41 years and has a son studying for the Methodist ministry. Mr. Crummey lives on his pear orchard, near San Jose, is installing an employes' playground with swimming pool and dance floor...
...That's the secret," came back Il Duce, pointing to a plate on which lay a peach, a pear and a bunch of grapes. "Fruit! Fruit! FRUIT...
...head to look at the road map. The right wheels of the car slipped through one of the 18-ft. openings in the concrete curb. For some 95 feet it careened along, the right wheels at times three feet lower than the left. Then it struck a young pear tree, swerved at right angles. The Queen and the chauffeur were thrown clear. The car rolled down the bank, caromed off another tree and into the shallow water of the lake...