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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Americans eat 15 billion pounds of meat a year. It has made fortunes and names for four U. S. families-Armour, Swift, Wilson, Cudahy. It keeps 129,000 men at work the year around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Meat, and a Bishop | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...impatiently and sent his No. 1 soapbox fireball, Van A. Bittner, to organize Chicago's 24,000 packinghouse workers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Last weekend, two years of patient preparation matured in a mass meeting in the Chicago Coliseum. John Lewis was ready to move against Armour, second packer in the Big Four. In 17 Armour plants from St. Paul to Los Angeles to Birmingham, Ala. to Milwaukee, the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee had either been named sole bargaining agent by the NLRB or claimed a majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Meat, and a Bishop | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...From Chile over the Andes to Argentina the President last week shifted Ambassador Norman Armour, 51, famed as the State Department's smoothest French-speaker, whose wife is a Russian princess. To be Government Secretary for the Virgin Islands he named Robert Morss Lovett, 68, distinguished left-wing belles-lettrist, Emeritus Professor of English of the University of Chicago, persistent civil libertarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wonderful Turnout | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...protect himself financially against the U. S. going Red, Joe sold enough Armour & Co. 4% bonds to buy 2,200 rubles worth ($1,588) of U. S. S. R. bonds, paying (still) 7% gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Redbug-on-a-Slide | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Godwin is an electrical engineer, Dr. Walker a chemist at Armour Institute of Technology. Both picked up photography as a hobby. In high-speed photography the shorter the exposure time, the more intense the illumination must be to produce a satisfactory impression on the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quick as a Flash | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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