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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buckwheat is highly suspect these days in Britain because it is off the ration and fetches the highest grain price as a scarce and valuable food for poultry, pigs and cattle. At the current price level (80 shillings per 56-lb. sack), Dennis had nearly ?3,000 worth in his 20-acre field. He could not use it all for his 200 chickens and herd of pigs. Was he flouting the County Agricultural Committee's orders so that he could sell the buckwheat in the black market...
...nation support, designates the central coast line, would remain indivisible, with the frank recognition that Jewish taxes would, in large part, support the Arab area. With the transition period tentatively set at two years, it is urged that 150,000 Jewish refugees be admitted immediately, with another 60,000 per year to come in during the remainder of the period...
...Federal Government thought that the devil was simply the boom. "People have more money to spend," said Secretary of Commerce Harriman, "and they are bidding against each other." For example, meat consumption this year-155 lbs. per capita-is the highest since...
...Fall to Come? Spurred by all these devils, Dun & Bradstreet's index of the wholesale price per pound of 31 staple foods last week hit $7.02, an alltime record (a year ago it was $4.99). Wholesale prices, which had been dragged up by the skyrocketing food prices, were within 7% of the alltime high reached in 1920-and the rise in recent weeks has been far sharper than it was after World War I. Would there be the same drop s? Nobody knew for sure, but there was another flurry of nervous talk of recession and buyers' strikes...
From an initial production of 14,000 tubes a day, Bub-O-Loon production last week had expanded to 400,000 tubes daily. The company was already grossing $100,000 a day. As the Vinylite plastic (purchased in bulk from Bakelite Corp.) cost only 14? per 49? tube, a large part of the gross was profit. There was only one hole in the bubble. The formula for turning vinyl plastic into Bub-O-Loon was so simple that Fox did not think it could be patented. Already competitors were turning out more than 100,000 tubes a day. When...