Excerpt from Handbook on Major Regional Farm Supply Purchasing Cooperatives, 1952 and 1953 On December 31, 1953, Eastern States had employees. Of these 434 were engaged in general administrative activities; 858 in manufacturing and processing operations; and 313 in distributing through its ware houses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.