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Last week it was a woman's turn to be president of the National Education Association. One candidate, Caroline Woodruff of Vermont, arrived in Denver for the N. E. A. convention with a carload of maple syrup. Another candidate's followers rolled into Denver on a noisy "Annie Carlton Woodward Special" from Massachusetts. Annie Carlton Woodward's demagogic platform: "Elect a Classroom Teacher." Candidates Woodruff, Woodward and Agnes Samuelson of Iowa settled down to a week of strategic breakfasts, luncheons, teas...
...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 odor which Pennsylvania Dutch farmers round about call "da chockle shtink." But the Hershey earnings have not always been as steady as the Hershey...
...meeting of the editors of all college dailies. There they were feted and dined, and then removed to New York to be subjected to the wisdom of some of Mr. Hearst's foremost satellites. Two Washington newspaper men of recognized enterprise asserted this was just his way of pouring syrup after a challenging letter sent him by the Association of College Editors. Mr. Hearst imagined, they declared, that such generosity would make immeasurably easier the progress of the "red scare" among the separate colleges...
Last week Secretary Roper was commissioned by the White House to go before a microphone and make a thorough job of reassuring U. S. businessmen. His soothing syrup was a declaration of policy...
...price paid for corn normally represents 60% of the production costs of Corn Products Refining Co. (corn starch, Karo corn syrup. Mazola oil, corn derivatives). With 1934 corn prices substantially higher than last year's, it reported half-year profits of only $4,402,000 against $5,188,000 for the first half...