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...might help in such a plan, "providing the economic course was feasible." Gerrity said that he was opposed to creating economic disturbances, but later organized, according to the testimony, at least two meetings with representatives of such companies as Anaconda, Kennecott Copper, Bank of America, Pfizer Inc. and Ralston Purina. The other companies were not willing to go along with such adventurism...
...store business into a serious and well-financed industry. In the past, an enterprising farmer or a ski bum whose legs were growing old would dip into his savings and put up a rope tow on a nearby hill. Today large corporations are cashing in on snow business. Ralston Purina has bought a 62% interest in Keystone, Colo. Subsidiaries of LTV, the conglomerate, own the land, lodges and lifts at Steamboat Springs, Colo. Abroad, some of the world's most famous wealth-that of the Aga Khan, the French Rothschilds, Greek Shipping Magnate Stavros Niarchos-is invested...
...Chicago Board of Trade, the world's largest commodity exchange, is a reliable indicator of future food prices, housewives might have to spend more at the grocery store next year for such basic items as bread, flour and meat. Grain dealers and agribusiness giants such as Ralston Purina and Quaker Oats sell and buy future contracts on the exchange-and each transaction really amounts to a bet on what commodities will actually sell for in one to nine months. Since November, the 124-year-old exchange's volume record and many of its price records have been broken...
...RALEIGH, N.C., the Wallace for President Headquarters is in a little prefab shed lost in the sprawl beside hot, roaring highway 401 South, in front of a gas station, next to "The Pork Palace"--"Old-fashioned pit-cooked barbeque"--and just down the road from the Purina Feeds elevators. The sickly, rural smell of the feeds mixes with the pork smell and the hydrocarbons and the hot dust that blow into the one-room headquarters. Inside, there is a five-foot high, very grainy litho of Wallace with about half a smile, and on a card-table there...
...game; in his 1896 Cross of Gold speech, William Jennings Bryan grumbled about "the man who goes on the Board of Trade and bets on the price of grain." In fact, trading is composed not only of outright speculation but of hedging operations by such agribusiness giants as Ralston Purina and Quaker Oats, which trade in future contracts as a means of protecting themselves against possible inventory losses due to the frequently violent price fluctuations of farm goods. To an outsider the buying and selling seem like an explosive quarrel; traders scream at each other and gesture with their hands...