| Show Pay Percentage Less for Food Than Any Time Utah will observe Food Is a Bargain dates from October 19 to 31 The industry supplied the fol fol- fol following lowing statistics The cash for today's monthly food budget can be earned bythe by bythe the average factory worker in 37 hours In the period it took the same worker 60 hours In 1957 the average worker worked 6 minutes to buy a quart of milk Today according to figures compiled by the Nation Nation- National al Industrial Conference Board from the Bureau of Labor Stat Stat- Statistics he works 5 minutes A POUND of butter cost 22 working minutes in 1957 to- to today to day it sells for 19 minutes A pound of coffee leaves the store shelf for 18 n minutes of your time today in 1957 you had bad to work 31 minutes for it Chicken checks in at 4 rain min a lb cheap cheap- cheaper er than it was formerly Sta pIes such as sugar canned tom dried beans and bread are all a minute cheaper than thanin thanin in the decade of the We are spending the smallest percentage of our take h home me pay for food at any time In our history We spend 19 cents out of each dollar for food the low low- lowest est figure for any country in the free world And in Russia wor wor- workers kers spend around 53 per cent of their income for food Food is a bargain today be be- be because cause the United States food in in- in industry has been and continues to be an extremely competitive growth industry The food in equals in scope and reo re venue the rho more highly publish publish- published ed attainments of industries in inthe Inthe the area of electronics or nu DU clear physics THE FOOD Industry is basic day to day Employees number nearly five million workers whose total output is valued at 70 billions and more annually Its products are marketed through ough thousands of distribution warehouses over the nation These products travel from the warehouses to about sup sup- supermarkets and grocery stores in every city suburb and shop shop- shopping ping from center the sprawl bag ing metropolis to the remotest crossroad The food industry Is as essen essen- essential to the United States as the products it sells There is not Dot one person In the land who does not benefit from its existence This over expanding growth industry has been revolutionIze ed by looking forward research during recent recent years The wise and economical adoption of ad ad- ad advanced production and handling methods computer savings to tomen men mention on just a few has lashed present day efficiency and low cost operations THESE FORCES have been factors contributing to the flood of new consumer convenience products which have burst upon the market Consumers are saved innumerable hours of kit kit- kitchen chen preparation time as well as actual dollars and cents The T h e American housewife housew e spends approximately 11 hrs a week cooking for her family less than half the time it too took her when she started from scratch The never ending competition at every level of the food in Industry has created an industry which must find the simplest lowest cost route to produce distribute and sell food prod products The result Food prices have declined in the postwar period when viewed as a per per- percentage of workers take home pay Anyone who thinks by the th a inch and talks by the yard ought to be moved by the foot |
