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Show Food business largest of all enterprises Columnist Henry J. Taylor writes: "The life line of America Amer-ica is the line of essential processes pro-cesses between food in the field and food on the table. More than a quarter of our working population is employed in some phase of the food business. This v makes it the largest private pri-vate enterprise in the world. Moreover, by advances in types and packaging, the housewife's kitchen time has been reduced to an average daily 1 hours compared with 5 not many years ago." Mr. Taylor then draws a comparison between this country coun-try and the Soviet Union (which despite its vast natural resources, seems to be in a contrast state of semicrisis over ov-er food production as well as the production of just about all other consumer goods) : "While communism puts the feet of the world in marching boots, this country was built by freedom, tools and ambition. The American way places the emphasis on personal responsibility responsi-bility in our homes, our farms, our work places, large and small. The Soviet way places all responsibility in the hands of an all-powerful bureaucracy. bur-eaucracy. Russia's center is the Kremlin. America's center is America's crossroads. There is no agricultural or industrial heart of America. The heart of America is everywhere, in all free efforts." We, as consumers, see this every day not only when we buy food, out of the endless abundance our stores offer, but when we buy any other kind of goods. The retail store chain or independant, big or little is, in a way, the show-place show-place of the nation. |