IN THE MAWS OF THE TRUSTS
WHERE THE FOODSTUFFS ARE. REASON FOR INCREASED PRICES. TSv 'Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received February 7. 11.5 p.m. London. February 7. The Daily Chronicle's "New York correspondent reports that official returns show there, is .£(100,000,000 worth of 'food in the various trusts' cold stores, including 14.000,000 carcases' of cattle, 25,000,000 carcases of sheep. »0,000,000 'carcases of pigs, and £5.000,000 worth 'of fish for the Lenten season. The increased cost of food, therefore, is not 'due to scarcity. ' The Chronic-le adds that despite the Increase in the railway reaeipts and other signs of prosperity American financial circles are thoroughly unsettled by the Government's attitude towards 'trusts. The value of stock of 32 railways and 29 industrial combinations ha.s depreciated 207 millions sterling in six months, owing to the fear that, trusts 'will lie prosecuted.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 309, 8 February 1910, Page 5
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137IN THE MAWS OF THE TRUSTS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 309, 8 February 1910, Page 5
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