Purina Chows Reaches 50 Millionth Ton Milestone
On April 5 the 50 millionth ton of Purina Chows was produced at Ralston Purina’s Checkerboard Square plant in St. Louis. Donald Danforth bagged the milestone, receiving a gold checkered bag. The founder William H. Danforth guided tours of the research farm, now deceased, as the company credited farmers for the milestone amid notes on product evolution from horse feed to multi ingredient rations with hormones minerals and antibiotics.
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Ralston Purina Company
Checkerboard Square
St. Louis
Donald Danforth
Lyle Eliason
Williams Feed & Machinery Award
Ralston-Purina Company
William H. Danforth
Danforth
Montana
Purina
United States
Canada
Matt Sieckhaus
J. F. Austin
Vigilante League Scores and Standings Reported
Edutine Vigilante League results show Jack's Market defeating the Montanan 3 1 with games 716 677 and subsequent 833 727 827 753 2276 2196. The Oasis swept Laundry 3 0 with 08 754 764 758 797 759 and 2369 2201. Vaughn and Ragsdale lost only the last game in a State Bar win, scores 769 714 776 675 744 748 and 2389 2139. A tied third game pitted Electric Variety vs Roberta 2 1 with 846 770 824 778 and 2497 2372. Minerals Engineering swept Moose Lodge 3 0 886 835 878 795 862 786 2626 2416. Farmers-Union beat Montana Motor Supply 3 1 961 990 856 815 900 817 2717 2682. Warners won 3 1 over Cochrane Motors 831 824 039 830 829 858 2599. Gib's Union 76 won three from Hignight Plumbers 912 849 922 822 821 843 2655 2514. Beaverheads Laundry defeated Roberta 3 1 in roll-off 739 717 793 756 732 754 2324 2232.
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Jack’s Market
Montanan
Oasis
Vaughn
Ragsdale
State Bar
Electric & Variety
Roberta
Treasure State League Minerals Engineering
Moose Lodge
Farmers - Union
Montana Motor Supply
Warners
Cochrane Motors
Gib
Union 76
Hignight Plumbers
Beaverheads Laundry
Norfolk Crashes Invasion Label as Amphibious Force Birthplace
Norfolk Virginia earned the wartime nickname Crashe of Invasion for the creation of the Atlantic Amphibious Force on March 14 during World War II.
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Norfolk
No Comment on Business Attacks and Defense Policy
Washington column surveys rising anti business rhetoric from Congress and administration. It notes Keating attacks on WOC and Weeks defense defense stance, with discussions of taxes, job growth, and government competition amid policy shifts and proposed rider on defense appropriations.
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Washington
Friends of Business
Labor Department
New Deal
Kenneth Keating
R.-N-Y
House Antitrust Subcommittee
W. O.C
Roosevelt
New Fair Deal Administration
Defense Production Act
Business and Defense Services Administration
Defense
Arthur Flemming
Congress
Keating
Secretary of Commerce Weeks
House Appropriations Committee
The
Treasury
Defense Appropriations
Department of Defense
Hoover ‘Commission
Defense Department
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
House Armed Services Committee
National Defense
House Small Business Committee
William Hill
Re Corp
Eisenhower
America
Capitol Hill
Rep
Reed
New York
Ways and Means
Washington Observers Call Mr. Reed
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Famous Farm Feed Company
Dillon Examiner
R.E.A
Edutine
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