Word: productions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still will not import fresh, chilled or frozen meat from the pampas, in deference to the ire of U. S. cattlemen, already roused by Franklin Roosevelt's crack that Argentine corned beef at 9? a pound is superior food for U. S. sailors to the home product at 24? a pound...
...surface ships and submarines, stabilizers for seagoing craft from yachts to liners, automatic pilots and gyro instruments for aircraft. It also got many a confidential job from Army and Navy, soon branched out into the design and manufacture of complicated fire control devices, antiaircraft searchlights. Prize Sperry antiaircraft product is the Sound Locator-Searchlight, which picks out flying raiders by sound, focuses the lights on them, trains antiaircraft guns so that they "lead" bombing flights as a duck-hunter leads a flying mallard...
...Colony coops, now employing some 400 men, David Colony is president or vice president, visits each one daily when he is not out selling their product. He is unpopular with his bishop, dignified, 77-year-old Francis Marion Taitt, but says Rector Colony: "There is not a single member of my parish who does not have a job. That is more than a lot of my Main Line friends...
There are two breeds of U. S. racehorses: Thoroughbred and Standardbred. The Thoroughbred, developed in England, races under saddle and runs at a horse's natural gait, a gallop. The Standardbred, a U. S. product, races in harness and runs at a man-trained trot or pace.* For those U. S. citizens who remember the horse-&-buggy days, no sport takes them back so fast as a trotting race, no sport event is more endearing than the Hambletonian, richest and most famed of the 25,000 or more harness races held in the U. S. every summer...
...saying, he upped the price of his principal finished product (gasoline) by a half-cent a gallon in 42 States where Consolidated's wholly-owned subsidiary, Sinclair Refining Co., has filling stations. This was an invitation for the rest of the business to follow suit and get some of the profits in a year when motor fuel sales were running nearly 5% over record...