Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Americans eat 15 billion pounds of meat a year. It has made fortunes and names for four U. S. families-Armour, Swift, Wilson, Cudahy. It keeps 129,000 men at work the year around...
...industry's best sales plug in recent years has been the claim that pickles contain vitamins, particularly Vitamin C (which prevents scurvy), fill a dietary need for people who do not eat enough fresh vegetables and fruit...
...whose product will go to fatten hogs for a glutted pork market. But their returns are not likely to be handsome. For 1939 nature has been bountiful beyond New Deal rules and a large crop of 2,518,000,000 bushels is forecast. Thus, while pigs in increasing numbers eat corn, corn (currently selling in Chicago at slightly more than 50? per bu.) will likely become a market glut, too, with a huge carry-over into 1940. July futures closed last week...
Said Vegetarian George Bernard Shaw, 82: "When I am dead my funeral will be followed by herds of oxen, sheep, swine, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling menagerie of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honour of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures...
First indication of the change came soon after the Wall Street Crash, when Pub lisher Patterson walked into the city room and announced: "We're off on the wrong foot. The people's major interest is in how they're going to eat." On March 6, 1933 the News announced: "This newspaper now pledges itself to support the policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a period of at least one year." Not only did the News support the New Deal, but it devoted itself wholeheartedly to selling it to the people. Joe Patterson became...