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Excerpt from The Agricultural Situation, Vol. 39: May 1955 The rapid and sustained rise of the concentrate industry would not, how ever, have'been possible without par allel growth of specialized services of the railroads and motortrucks which have moved a substantial part of the Florida orange crop to consumers in the new form. Speed and exibility of movement, and maintenance of safe temperatures from. Factory to con sumer were indispensable to the mush rooming distribution pattern. Today, this frozen product is avail able to consumers at thousands of food stores, restaurants, and refreshment bars throughout the country. In the. 1952 - 53 season, it accounted for more than 40 percent of all frozen food sales, and was purchased by about 'a third of all American families. Consumer acceptance, together with multiplying retail outlets, give the industry reason to believe that sales will continue to expand. 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.