Word: qt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though it has not advertised since 1909, Hershey is the world's biggest chocolate company. It uses 240,000 qt. of milk and three carloads of sugar a day. It produces about 45% of all the cocoa and chocolate products consumed in the U. S. Over half of its total sales are accounted for by the Hershey bar (almond and plain, 5? and 10?). The rest comes from breakfast cocoa, chocolate syrup, chocolate covering for "enrobing" the candy of other manufacturers. On windless summer days the town of Hershey, Pa. (pop. 2,500) is permeated by a sweet sickish...
...less than Einstein's, ten more than Darwin's. At the age of 18 mo. the prodigy, referred to only as "K," could converse fluently. At 20 mo., he knew the alphabet. Taken to the psychologist, K discussed the economics of the sales tax, explained how, given a 3-qt. and a 5-qt. pail, he could draw 7 qt. of water, asked his examiners whether they preferred his signature "printed or cursive." K reads on the average a book a day, argues politics with his father, wants to be an astronomer. Few days later New York's Bureau...
...keep in normally good health Mr. Doane used a table of per capita food requirements prepared by the Department of Agriculture. In the course of a year this diet would, among other things, provide every citizen with 100 lb. of flour and cereals, 155 lb. of potatoes, 310 qt. of milk, 135 lb. of leafy and other green vegetables, 165 lb. of meat and fish, an egg for breakfast every day. Researcher Doane discovered that with 1929's good crops every citizen could have been provided with all the grain, potatoes, beans, peas, nuts, fats, bacon and lard called...
...residents of Pennsylvania began buying their legal liquor from the state in 240 state-owned stores which opened last week. They were not at all sure they liked it when their Liquor Control Board pegged the price of bonded whiskey as high as $8 a qt., announced that it expected to make a 40% to 50% profit on all liquor sales. Consumers immediately began comparing whiskey prices with those in Government-owned Canadian stores and, except in a few instances, found wide discrepancies. Uncut rye was from $6.50 to $8 a qt. in Pennsylvania, from $3.08 to $4.25 in Canada...
...city. By regulation of the State Milk Control Board created last winter by the Legislature, the dairy farmers in this as in other sections of the State are paid on a sliding scale of prices, depending upon whether the milk is to be used for drinking (4¾ per qt.) or to go into ice cream, cheese or butter (1½). Independent farmers, complaining that they received an average of only 2? per quart and irked by the Milk Board's refusal to allow them a better price, last week canceled their deliveries, went on strike. They demanded...