Word: caving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PIGS: FROM CAVE TO CORN BELT (305 pp.)-Charles Wayland Towns & Edward Norris Wentworth-University of Oklahoma...
...story got around and the label stuck. In their passionately partisan study of Pigs: From Cave to Corn Belt, Authors Charles Wayland Towne (retired publicity director for Anaconda Copper) and Edward Norris Wentworth (director of Armour's Livestock Bureau) make it clear that a pork packer as Uncle Sam's prototype is not too outlandish an idea. "More than any other commodity," say the authors, "pork implemented American retaliation against [British] tyranny in colonial days, and incidentally initiated the great international commerce that has characterized . . . modern [U.S.] culture." By 1850, "Porkopolis" (Cincinnati) had become the greatest pork-packing...
...then there were eggs. In one of the great egg-lays of all time, the Government had deposited close to three billion dried eggs in a Kansas cave and in storage centers throughout the country. Since no one wanted to buy them, the Department of Agriculture last week announced that it would begin giving away 73 million pounds of dried eggs (cost to U.S. taxpayers: $95 million) to schools and relief agencies...