The story of Pittsburgh: Food products

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623587

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241112

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Food products

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 12

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: [ca. 60] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Pittsburgh provision & packing company

Collection:: Economics Books

clients in Europe. On its arrival it is sold to smelters which produce the metal there from. Manufacturing chemists purchase this and convert it into the bismuth subnitrate used so extensively by the physician of to-day. This product is imported by the American drug broker who sells it to the jobber, whose travel ler in turn disposes of it to the wholesale chem ist through whom it reaches the local druggist and finally the consumer. It is safe to say that fully 30 per cent, of the prescriptions, written by the doctor and compounded by the apothecary call for this drug. If the metal is to be used in the arts it goes through as many hands before reaching the ultimate user. It is not difficult therefore to see that from the mine to the consumer there are six or seven profits made, several of which might be elimi nated, thereby reducing the cost of the article, provided the ore was brought direct to this country and the reduction made here. Fur thermore instead of going around the Horn to Europe, the freight through the Panama Canal to an American port would be much

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