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brought lots of chain stores in urban neigh ~ Sears, Roebuck & Montgomery Ward (mail-order companies) used improved rail systems and to ship everything! - Package foods (Kellogg/ Post) were common items in kitchens. - Refrigerated railroad cars & canning enabled Gustavus Swift & other packers to change the eating habits of ppl w/ mass-produced meat & veggies. ~ Advertising and new marketing techniques promoted consumers economy & created consumer culture where shopping was favorite…

My husband and I just know the second National Great Depression will soon become a reality. With the way fuel prices are climbing, other things we need to survive will soon have their prices rise along with fuel. We are taking steps to prepare for this. My husband and I make a total of $2,300 per month. That is not too bad in the part of the country we live in, but as gas and other expenses continue to rise, we seem to have less and less money per month. I am sure other Americans are having the…

2. INTRODUCTION- LIFE AND WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE Edgar Allan Poe represent the first great literary generation of United States of America, this was the Romantic period in American literature. The Romantic outlook in case of novels was expressed in the form of romance but romances were not love stories. The protagonists of the American romance were generally haunted, alienated individuals. The isolated and alienated characters in the tales written by Poe were unknown and mysterious…

Chapter-1 Introduction Plantains and banana constitute the fourth most important global food commodity (after rice, wheat and maize) grown in more than 120 countries over a harvested area of approximately 10 million hectares. The annual production of banana is about 88 million tonnes (Frison and Sharrock, 1999). It is the crop in superior position due…

It is inserted into the equation simply to give a positive solution at the origin; we are artificially creating a solution: 2x1 + 4x2 - s1 + A1 = 16 2(0) + 4(0) - 0 + A1 = 16 A1 = 16 The artificial variable is somewhat analogous to a booster rocket—its purpose is to get us off the ground; but once we get started, it has no real use and thus is discarded. The artificial solution helps get the simplex process started, but we do not want it to end up in the optimal solution, because it has no real…

In addition, some of our ingredients, such as aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, saccharin and ascorbic acid, as well as some of the packaging containers, such as aluminum cans, are available from a limited number of suppliers, some of which are located in countries experiencing political or other risks. We cannot assure you that we and our bottling partners will be able to maintain favorable arrangements and relationships with these suppliers. The citrus industry is subject to the…

Acme Products, Inc., requires a new machine to produce a part for a heat generator. Two companies have submitted bids, and you have been assigned the task of choosing one of the machines. Cash flow analysis indicates the following: Year Machine A Machine B ---- --------- --------- 0 -$1,000 -$1,000 1 0 417…