Word: beef
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before a great company of notables the new Steinway Hall, Manhattan, was opened last week. Willem Mengelberg conducted 35 Philharmonic players through the tonal roast beef of Beethoven's "Dedication of the House"; Josef Hofmann exquisitely played his own "Sanctuary" (composed under the name of Dvorsky); millions listened on the radio. Among the guests, with bustling pride, moved four gentlemen who have made their money in the piano business-Henry, Theodore, William, Frederick Steinway (TIME, June 29), grandsons of the original Heinrich Steinweg...
...South American business conducted by Armour & Co. continues in unusually large volume. About 25% of the South American output of packing products is shipped by the local subsidiaries of the big Chicago firm, and consists almost entirely of beef destined for England and the continent. Armour & Co. consequently is now an international business, and its prosperity depends upon foreign as well as purely U. S. economic conditions...
...radio station pointing out that Mr. Walker as a State Senator and a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture had appeared privately as attorney for the -% meat packers, who had in their possession time and again rotten hog livers and pigs' heads, frozen spotted eggs, putrid spareribs and beef brains, and pork snouts in an advanced stage of putrefaction...
Owing to the severity of depression encountered by the cattlemen, herds in the southwest have been considerably reduced. Meanwhile pork prices have soared, and under satisfactory wage conditions the domestic demand for beef has increased. As a result, heavy steers are bringing better prices in Chicago today. On the other hand, the cost of cattle feed-always a most important factor in the industry- has held fairly stable. Some cattlemen expect to see on their ledgers this year the first profits since...
Cattle, however, depend for their value directly on their beef; their hides are a byproduct. Tanners thus lack the control over supplies of their raw material...