Word: armour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BEEF-BACON SALES are soaring as a result of newspaper stories that the meat is one of President Eisenhower's favorites, is on his menu at Fitzsimons Army Hospital. Armour says sales of beef bacon have shot up 30%, would have gone higher except that demand outran supply...
...family. He went to work selling Bibles-three different editions for teachers, three for home use and, along with them, a discreet book on sex fundamentals. By the time he married Thelma Carver, Donald had a job selling "Checkerboard" feeds for Ralston Purina, later was hired by the Armour Fertilizer Works, for which he is now district sales manager. Perhaps because he never had a chance to do much of it, Donald loved farming-a love that he passed...
MEAT PRICES will probably go up this fall despite mountainous supplies of beef, lamb and pork. Reason: rising labor costs resulting from the 14? hourly wage boost given packinghouse workers by four big packers (Wilson, Swift, Armour, Cudahy). If (as seems likely) the 14?-an-hour increase becomes the pattern for this year's labor contracts, the cost to the nation's packing industry will be $50 million annually, more than the whole industry's profits...
...more top prizes in the past ten years than those of any other California high school, and in 1951, Wasco's livestock won $60,000 in prizes and sales at the Great Western Livestock Show. In the last 15 years, P.D.'s students have won seven Armour Trophies, five Swift Trophies, nine Safeway Stores Trophies. Their activities, however, go far beyond taking prizes. Each year they have staged a rodeo, a community barbecue, and an annual parents-and-sons banquet for about 400 guests...
...Among other Illinois companies with staggered directors' terms: Armour & Co., Great Western Railway, Sunbeam Corp., Swift & Co., U.S. Gypsum...