Word: canning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than I do." Today his income is $58 a month-just about enough to live on. But if Peters has not continued to prosper, the pineapples have. Cuttings from Peters' original plants now produce 40,000 to 60,000 tons of pineapples a year, supplying four local canning factories...
...George Canning (1770-1827) was perhaps the most brilliant of Anthony Eden's predecessors. John Quincy Adams called him the "implacable and rancorous enemy of the U.S." Canning was rich, a brilliant orator, wrote poetry, and was trusted by almost no one. First named Secretary at 37, he was unable to work in harmony with Castlereagh, then Secretary for War. Castlereagh challenged him to a duel in which Canning was shot in the thigh; both then resigned. He did not return to office until Castlereagh's suicide, 13 years later. Canning encouraged liberal movements in Europe, used British...
...three $1,000,000 manufacturing plants or one $10,000,000 plant, the sizes of the symbols indicating the relative value of each area's plants. In addition to the major industries shown on this eleven-state map, the South is dotted with important food processing plants; seafood canning is big business in New Orleans, Mobile and Brunswick, Ga., as is meat and fruit packing in Jacksonville, poultry freezing in Gainesville, Ga., sugar refining in New Orleans, Louisville and Savannah...
...Feminine Touch. Tillie has learned every trick of the canning trade, and played them all to the hilt. Her methods have not always endeared her to other canners. Like almost every other canner, Tillie Lewis lost money in 1948 & '49 (reason: high-cost inventories and overproduction). She squeaked through only by wangling two RFC loans for a total of $1,600,000 (has paid off all but about $600,000). Tillie chose this poor time to launch another venture-a Texas company to import and can Mexican pineapples. Tex-Mex went bust, and Tillie says she lost...
With the Korean war, Flotill became the biggest packager of C rations for U.S. troops (assembling food products made by scores of other factories). Tillie has developed another big sideline, canning 300,000 to 400,000 cases a year of beef stew, corned-beef hash, chili and chili con carne for Hormel. From the original cannery, Flotill has grown to three plants-two at Stockton, a third at Modesto-covering 67 acres, using more than 25 freight cars of tin cans daily, packaging 75,000 cases of 77 different seasonal items, employing 4,000 workers at peak season...