Word: poultrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After samples of fried chicken were passed out at trade fairs in West Germany, U.S. poultrymen got orders for millions of pounds of frozen dressed poultry. When samples of U.S. cigarettes were handed out in Thailand, purchases of cigarettes made from U.S. tobacco jumped from 7,000,000 to 14 million in a month. Lately cotton consumption has risen 12% in France, 11% in West Germany, and 20% in Japan following trade-fair promotions. Industry sources believe the current 5,700,000-bale foreign market can be boosted to 8,000,000. Says the Cotton Council: "If we could...
Last week Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson summoned his 24-man Egg Advisory Committee to Washington to hear poultrymen's demands for support buying of both chickens and eggs. But after the meeting the committee announced that it "believes in selfhelp, leaving to the industry the solution of its own problems...
...spent $200,000 on research, another $1,000,000 on a plant in Pittsburg, Calif, with a capacity of 2,000 Ibs. of di-methionine a day. This week, Dow put di-methionine on the market at $3 a lb., well within the reach of most poultrymen. Said Dow: one or two pounds of di-methionine added to a ton of feed will produce a 10% larger chicken...