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1937 BUSINESS: Farming: Foreign eggs put 8,000,000 hens on 'dole'
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2:11Now PlayingDate: 1st March 1937
Location: LONDON, ENGLAND
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: foreign eggs put 8,000,000 hens on 'dole'
ENGLAND: London:
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Price label on English eggs
Hand taking egg and cracking into frying pan with bacon
Knife and fork cutting bacon
Mr and Mrs Wright and son eating at breakfast table
Mr Wright talking to wife about bacon SOT
Close up of egg and word 'Danish'
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Various of chickens feeding
Man collecting eggs
Basket of eggs
Tower Bridge PAN to Danish boat
Danish Flag
Various of cranes lifting crates of eggs from ship to quayside
Man pulling barrow along
Farmer feeding chickens
Chickens feeding
Mr. Lechmere (Poultry Farmer) interview SOT
- Without government assistance to curb foreign competition we must go to the wall it's only a question of how soon
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Various of chickens in chicken coop (cages) inside farm
Egg rolls down slot
Boxes of eggs
Close up of newspaper headline - 'Fall in prices threatens poultry industry'
Mrs. Wright (Wife) talking to husband at breakfast table SOT
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