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Show Total Meat Output For 1919Five Billion CHICAGO, Feb. 6. Total output of the meat packing Industry in tne United States for 1919 wasestimated atjnore than ?5,000,000,000 In a statement state-ment given out today by the Institute of American Meat Packers. The estimate esti-mate was based on annual reports of more than 500 packing companies which oporate under federal inspection. inspec-tion. Profit throughout the industry averaged aver-aged not more than a cent and a half on each dollar of sales, the report estimated. |