The story of Pittsburgh: Food products

Food products (Vol. 1, nr. 12)

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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:: Ward banking corporation

Collection:: Economics Books

Silver Queen, Paradise Fruit, etc., being among its widely distributed products. The system of deliveries meets the exacting needs of groceries, delicatessens, restaurants, hotels, ete., with a service which is known to be dependable. Nearly two thousand salesmen covering about 1600 routes in some 1500 electric and gasoline delivery cars maintain this service in all weathers and often over long daily mileage far into small outlying villages and settlements. Retail distribution is bene- ited by the regularity of deliveries to nearly 80,000 stores cach day. This huge output is made possible by the maintenance at a high state of efficiency of the modern mechanical equipment attended by bakers trained to the repetition of perfected methods and operations. The common acceptance of sani- tariness in the production of foods not only prevails in all of the Ward plants, but is also made a religion of the trade in each room. The adoption of standard processes in production is alded by the maintenance of standardized ingredients chosen by specialists in laboratory analyses made effective by daily inspection of raw materials used in all products. RIECK-McJUNKIN DAIRY CO. Folks who lived in Jane Street section of South Side back along about 1881—the light sleepers especially—undoubtedly were awakened in the early morning hours by the clattering of a horse’s hoofs over the cobbles. The horse drew a milk wagon and the driver was Edward E. Rieck. From this one-wagon milk and cream route there has grown the world’s largest dairy corporation serving hundreds of thousands of retail consumers with not only milk and cream and ice cream, but with practically every product of the modern dairy industry. Today, some 44 years from the time Mr. Rieck first shouted ‘‘Giddap’’ to his equine partner, the Rieck-Me- Junkin Dairy Company enjoys the position as the mother unit of the National Dairy Products Corporation, whose field

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