Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three packers-Kansas City's Maurer-Neuer, East St. Louis' Hunter Packing and Omaha's Cudahy Packing -have already signed more than 100 contracts with farmers. Swift is reportedly planning to start a contract-farming program in Georgia. Feed companies are also promoting contract farming, since it increases the market for their products. One of the pioneer promoters of the plan in the pork industry is Kansas City's aggressive Staley Milling Co., which supplies feed to contractors of all three packers using the plan, has sent its men around to boost it at farmers...
...nationally in ten years, while prices to the housewife dropped more than 30% as the market broadened and the quality of chickens improved. In 1947 the U.S. per capita consumption of chicken was 18.1 Ibs.; last year it was 25.3 Ibs. Success in broilers encouraged turkey breeders to try contract farming. Originally a holiday bird, turkeys are now year-round fare; production is up, and as prices dropped, per capita consumption almost doubled...
...Compton. Pasadena, Long Beach and Hollywood, Caruso refined cheating, double-dealing and intimidation into such a formalized art that he actually conducted regular classroom sessions to teach his salesmen (nine of whom got lighter sentences) how to go about it. Salesmen were instructed to get customers to sign blank contracts, later cut the trade-in allowance and raise the new car price they wrote in on the contract. They were taught to spout figures at a torrential rate to confuse the buyer, and to never put a deal in writing. If a customer took out his own piece of paper...
...heart of Moscow, the first U.S. trade fair ever held in Russia will open its doors this summer. The Soviet government is eager to cooperate; it has already announced the fair in newspapers and magazines, promised to plug it over radio and TV. To handle research, publicity and contracts for the fair, the first commercial office opened in the Soviet Union by any Western country has been set up by America Abroad Associates in Moscow. Yet the U.S. Government is far from happy about this adventure into areas long tightly closed to Americans. The reason is that private U.S. enterprise...
...Ukraine after World War II, had met Khrushchev) to talk to top Russian brass, himself talked long and hard with Russian trade officials. He got a written agreement to stage the fair last summer, canceled it at U.S. Government request after the Hungarian revolution, signed a new contract last July to exhibit this summer...