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Show Billion a Year on Candy. "More money Is spent for candy each year than for hats and shoes and gloves combined," said Harvey Towle of Pittsburg Pitts-burg at the Planklngton house. Mr. Towle travelD for one of the largest candy manufacturing concerns In the world. "We sell about $1,250,000 worth of candy a year ourselves," he continued, contin-ued, "and at an average of 7 cents a pound you can figure out for yourself how big a pile of candy that makes. There Is over a billion a year spent for sweets In this countrj'. People have no Idea of the magnitude of the business." Milwaukee Wisconsin |