UlTCLE SAI'.^ AT YOUR SERVICS Feliruary 8, 1932 



jTOT for PUBIICATIOIT 



SPEAXIITG Tllffi: 11 Minutes. 



AinrOUlTCSlfflin? : Tliis is Station in and we bring you again the 



Veteran Inspector, \7lio is going to tell you nore about the work of Federal 

 officials who enforce the pure food aad drug lav:. The Inspector, a veteran 

 in this work, is an official spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration 

 of the Department of Agriculture and has been broadcasting tliese talks for two 

 and a half years now. He has not yet exiiausted his subjc;ct, however. Today 

 he is going to tell you wliat is going on at one of the Food and Drug 

 Adniini strati on' s most infloortant field inspection stations. I^. Inspector 



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Imagine a city with 127 ::dlos of doop waterfront which has the 



fastest coal loading piers in the world — « the largest grain elevator on 



tide-^'rater in the United States which ranlcs as the second American port 



in vol^ume of inK)ort tonnage i:iandled— — the first American port in volume of 

 westbound intercoastal traffic handled and which is the seventh indus- 

 trial city of the nation. ... 



Imagine a city whose industries vary all the way from copper smelting 

 to the manufacture of bottle stoppers and straw hats. A city which lias the 

 largest fertilizer and alcohol output in the country. {Thinlz of a city ^ihose 

 manufactui'cd goods run all the wa^* from meats, vegetables, and fish, to 

 pliaxmaceuticals, porcelainware and ca:.').^:^, • • • 



Imagine a city diaracterized by Oliver Tendell Holmes as "the gastro- 

 nomic center of America," which is famous for seafoods, fruits, and vegetables, 

 and whose opon~air markets ra:ik among tho largest ^md most fascinating in 



the country. In this city—— as I found in I'ew Orleans most housewives 



do their own marketing. Dowagers in high-pricod automobiles, as well as the 

 humblest dwellers in the alleys, go to the market daily to select the fixings 

 for the splendid meals for wliich this city, Baltimore, is famous. 



I probably did not have to tell you that the city was Baltimore if you 

 have traveled very ijuch. And if you are faniliar \7ith this famous old town 

 you rrould Irao^ tliat it is not only renowned for good eating, but also for 

 having perhaps as diverse a list of businesses and industries as any metropolis 

 in the nation. Its maiiuf acturiixg industries ei^roloy more than 85,000 workers, 

 'i^ and the people of Baltimore can choose for their daily menus locally produced 

 foods, including oysters, terrapin, crabs, fish, game, and almost all vau'ietics 

 of truclc garden products and fruits. 



