U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for July 7: Cutting Things Fine

WASHINGTON, July 7, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

JULY 7: CUTTING THINGS FINE

Profile America — Friday, July 7th. When something is proclaimed the best thing since sliced bread, that praise doesn't encompass as much time as one might think. Sliced bread, wrapped for sale in wax paper, first appeared on store shelves on this date in 1928 in Chillicothe, Missouri. The Chillicothe Baking Company's innovation of uniform, pre-sliced bread loaves remained local for a short while. By the 1930s, the obvious convenience of satisfactory sliced bread spread the practice nationally. In large part, this was due to the Wonder Bread brand, founded in 1921, adopting the automatic slicer. There are some 3,000 commercial bakeries across the United States, employing over 125,000 workers. These establishments make a lot of dough: about $31 billion per year. You can find current data on the country's economy by downloading the 'America's Economy' mobile application at www.census.gov/mobile.

Sources:
Debut of Sliced Bread/accessed 4/25/2017:
www.chillicothecity.org/bread/breadnews1.html 
Development/accessed 4/25/2017:
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/qt/slicedbread.htm 
Wonder Bread/accessed 4/25/2017: http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/things-didnt-bread/story?id=29424069 
Number of bakeries and workers/County Business Patterns/NAICS 311812: https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/BP/2015/00A1//naics~311812 
Commercial bakeries revenues/Annual Survey of Manufacturers/NAICS 311812: https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ASM/2015/31GS101//naics~311812

SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau

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