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Show GH!fflSSii Armour's Sell $45,000,000 Worth for Immediate Delivery CHICAGO, April 24. Chicago packers pack-ers have completed sale of $45,000,000 of provisions to the German government, govern-ment, It was announced today by J. Ogden Armour, of Armour &. Co. Delivery o the meat, mostly pork products, will start at once. The supplies sup-plies havo boen stored in warehouses at Hamburg, Rotterdam. Amsterdam and in Scandinavia for several months. The transaction does not represent new business, Armour & Co. pointed out, as the meat was shipped shortly after the armistice In the expectation of a big demand in the central empires. em-pires. The adverse exchange situation situa-tion held up delivery Under present arrangements payment is to be made by Germany under a special amortization amortiza-tion plan. Armour & Co. issued a statement today announcing that retail meat prices, temporarily at least, will continue con-tinue high a6 a result of the "outlaw" switchmen's strike. While inbound livestock shipments: are approaching normal railroads are! unablo to furnish sufficient refrigerator refrigerat-or cars to handle tho drossed meat and as a result, the plants are not operating operat-ing at full capacity. |