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Sunday, June 30, 1918
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The Headlines
BOARD REPORTS PROFITEERING ON ENORMOUS SCALE; Packers, Pocketing $140,000,000 in Three Years, Chargedwith Unconscionable Preying.MILLERS ARRAIGNED ALSOExorbitant Flour Profits, Despite Fixed Price--VastGains Made in Steel.CANNERS ROLL UP WEALTH Other Industries Involved--Congress Urged to Impose LargeExcess Profits Taxes. Some Profits Outrageous. Effect of Cost-Plus System. FINDS PROFITERING IN WAR CONTRACTS Situation Fraught with Peril. Packers Preyed Unconscionably. High Metal Salaries. Failures to Keep Future Contracts. Packers' Gains Astounding. Packers' Rates of Profit. Ogden Armour's Leather Dividend. Reappraisal " Quietly and Promptly." Canned Milk Bonanzas. The Copper Industry. No Profiteering in Nickel. Coal and Petroleum.
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- Czesław Miłosz (1911)
- Walter Ulbricht (1893)
- Charles VIII of France (1470)
- Susan Hayward (1917)
- Lena Horne (1917)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
Superheterodyne Radio Receiver, Enigma Machine (Early Version) & Hydraulic Brakes.
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
39,422 days ago
(108 years, 2 days)