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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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Best-selling Sheet Music

Till We Meet Again

Richard A. Whiting

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1918

  • The Yanks are coming

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)