Word: chicken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plans, indeed all the minute and intimate details of everyday life are governed by this possible disaster of death from the skies, and what is much worse than death-mutilation and disorgan-zation generally. As you can imagine, the advertising business has caught it where the chicken caught the axe. Many of our young men were called up; and we have been engaged in the distressing task of reducing our staff, as well as making drastic reductions in our incomes...
This is only one more example of young (47) Jay C.'s industrial nonconformism. From the Hormel plant at Austin, Minn., he upset the packing industry with canned whole ham, spiced ham, canned whole chicken, beef stock soups and, lately, Spam (canned pork for making spam-wiches, etc.). There two years ago he signed a closed shop contract with C. I. O., defying packing industry precedent. He also guaranteed his workers 52 paychecks a year, and this year started a joint earnings plan which lets employes share the Hormel surplus (if any) with stockholders on a profits-wages ratio...
When he awoke at St. Joseph's Hospital, in Lorain, Ohio, William Capps begged for chicken and watermelon. "I might die," he urged. Doctors put him to sleep again and amputated the rest of his leg to a point five inches below the knee...
...farmers took in $990,000,000 gross income from chicken and eggs. Most of it went into the farmer's wife's china teapot...
Poultrymen wish the New Deal would stop worrying about cotton, grain & tobacco growers and pay some attention to them. Said one delegate to last week's Congress: "Poultry produces enough dollars every year to make the income of U.S. Steel Corp. look like chicken feed." He might have added that it is not much more profitable as a business. As long as three out of four eggs are a byproduct of general farming-produced with little direct cost-competition keeps prices down to a level where there is little profit in the business for most specialists...