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Time came and time went, but Cerberus remainded. At length the owner arrived to claim the dog. Add one item to the H.A.A.'s budget--fifty cents for a can of Roach's flea-powder...
Before its adjournment last June, the 73rd Congress decided to have a look at the U. S. armament business. Its members had been reading books, looking at magazines and listening to lectures, and on the theory that gunsmiths and powder-makers instigate wars to sell their goods, the Senate created a special investigating committee and put slim, sleek-haired Senator Nye of North Dakota in charge...
...company with its infinite side lines (Fabrikoid, Duco, Cellophane, Rayon, etc., etc.) has made much more money since the War than when it was providing smokeless powder to all the Allies. Military and sporting explosives now rank tenth among the company's money-making enterprises...
...hadn't shipped powder to France she would have been defeated and Germany would have conquered England as well. The Kaiser with his world dream of power wouldn't have stopped there...
Today Jewel Tea sells more coffee than anything else but fundamental policies have not changed a whit. Its line has been broadened to include toilet articles, soap, spices, baking powder, rice, other packaged staples. But the Jewel Man in the Jewel Ford truck still makes his fortnightly calls on 800,000 housewives scattered up & down some 1,500 routes. Rural country is avoided because of the time wasted in bumping from one farm to the next. Villages and small cities where houses are close and people neighborly are Jewel's choice territories...