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Most packers' fiscal years end abou Nov. 1. In fiscal 1935 the four big packers made some $32,000,000. In order to reap this profit, they had to sell no less than $1,850,000,000 worth of meat, butter, eggs, fertilizer, byproducts. The earnings amounted to only 1.7? per $1 of sale, but packers have long since grown accustomed to getting along on this modest ratio. The year was marked by a shortage of livestock. During 1935 only 29,266,000 little pigs went to market, compared to 44,398,000 in 1934. Total meat supply...
Will never reap the golden dollars Like he who shows them round and hollers...
...world ills, Mr. Smith declared the depression was the result of God's stretching a chain across the toll road of life and claiming possession. People are then forced to stop and think, and they are dissatisfied with what money brings. "They that sow of the flesh shall reap of the flesh," was the evangelist's concluding volley...
...fens in the evenings. On the University farm the sugar beet is being lifted and the sugar beet is being lifted and the harvest stubble is all ploughed up, while the October exams, finished this week, show their results in a few days, and show how many candidates reap the harvest of degrees and how many are ploughed...
Thus when war came it was to the advantage of the United States to stand aloof, and in this way to reap enormous profits from the sale of materials to the belligerents. Because of this traffic Germany instituted its submarine campaign which so seriously hindered American commerce that it was considered an affront to our neutrality. The viewpoint of that day is illustrated by Wilson's proposal to Congress. He recommended that a law be passed to enable all ships in the American Merchant Marine to mount guns and carry appropriate gun crews. America's neutrality was something which must...