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Breakfast world maker in Cedar Rapids unites breakfast plants
The Cedar Rapids area houses the world’s largest cereal mills and major food plants. Quaker Oats, Corn Mills, Penick & Ford, and Sinclair packers dominate output with 46 million bushels ground annually and 30 thousand oat meal packages per hour. The Iowa Railway & Light Co. powers mills and transit.
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Associated Press
Cedar Rapids
Ita
Cedar River
Minneapolis
Towa
Northwest
Quaker Oats
Chamber of Commerce
Missouri River
Atlantic Ocean
National Oats Company
Corno Mills
Penick & Ford
T. M.sinclair & Co
Iowa
United States
Great Britain
Altho
Rnto
Midwest
J. G. Cherry Company
Iowa Railway & Light Co
Palestine