The story of Pittsburgh: Food products

Food products (Vol. 1, nr. 12)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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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:: American fruit growers, inc.

Collection:: Economics Books

Food manufacturers appealed from the Secretary to President Roosevelt, who appointed a board of consulting scientific experts to make an examination. This board also used ““poison squads,” and brought in a report that in the small quantities used in preserving food, benzoate of soda could not be proved injurious to health. The Secretary of Agri- culture then issued a new ruling permitting the use of ben- zoate of soda if the percentage used in the food so preserved was truthfully stated on the label. This is mentioned as one of the incidents which the pre- servation of food has made prominent in the United States. In the following pages will be found particulars of a num- ber of Pittsburgh firms which have become prominent in the preservation and marketing of food products. AMERICAN FRUIT GROWERS, INC. The American Fruit Growers, Inc., is a nation-wide dis- tributing system for fresh fruits and vegetables, with its center at Pittsburgh. The company was incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware in June, 1919, with an authorized capital of $10,000,000 represented by 100,000 shares 79, cumulative preferred stock of a par value of $100, and 400,000 shares common stock of no par value; 54,447 shares of preferred stock and 57,86614 shares of common stock are now outstanding. The officers of the company are: J. S. Crutchfield, President; R. B. Woolfolk, Vice President and Chairman of the Board; W. H. Baggs, Vice President and General Manager; M. E. Simond, Secretary and Treas- arer; Alexander Murdoch, Comptroller. In addition to its major marketing activity, the company owns and operates production properties in most of the lead- ing fruit and vegetable districts of the United States, with an acreage of 14,077, and a book value of $4,787,950.51 as of December 31st, 1924. Any estimate of the value of American Fruit Growers, Inc., to the Pittsburgh district must begin, prior to 1919, with a firm which pioneered in the national distribution of perishable fruits and vegetables. Crutchfield

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