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...Food companies held up well. General Foods (Postum, Log Cabin Syrup, Cheek-Neal Coffee, Frosted Foods etc.) showed $10,167,000 against $10,629,000. Beech-Nut Packing (bacon, chewing gum, also a hotel in Rochester, N. Y.) reported $1,172,000 against $1,320,000. Hershey Chocolate's $4,718,000 stood against $4,253,000. During the June quarter William Wrigley Jr. Co. showed a sensational gain from $2,365,000 to $3,057,000. International Salt's first six months' $399,000 compared with last year...
...Beech-Nut Packing...
Surrounded by his nut trees. Governor Bilbo pondered these facts, and others, wrote a speech in which he forecast Mississippi's future, told why it got in such a bad hole. Later in the week he set forth on a typical Bilboan barnstorming trip through the State's swamp towns and back-country villages. State law barred him from re-election but he was bent on picking his own successor...
Most enlightening report came from the Department of Commerce which carefully stipulated that it must not be construed as an official finding. The Department inspectors dug the engines out of the earth to find that the right outboard engine had no propeller blades nor propeller hub, although the safety nut which holds them in place was still intact. The hub must have been broken. If, as reported, ice collected on the wings then it may have collected on the propeller hub too. A piece of ice dislodged from the hub might have struck a whirling blade and broken...
...Many vagaries of diet are advised by food faddists which run from nothing but grapes to almost nothing but oranges? through purely vegetarian, largely meat, fat-poor, salt-poor, vitamin-rich, sugar-poor, carbohydrate-rich, only milk and largely nut diets?with the expectancy that soon someone will exploit a blubber diet. . . . All these dietary regimens seem to succeed in ratio to the psychological influence of the adviser and the psychopathic complex of the advisee." He advised merely eating less ordinary foods and being satisfied with a pound a week loss of weight...