Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia. Last week a white Federal elephant became a municipal godsend when the U. S. Shipping Board agreed to sell Hog Island, $53,000,000 Wartime shipyard site, for $3,000.000 to the city of Philadelphia, for development as an air-water-rail terminal. Of Hog Island's 946 acres, 307 will be used for an airport, 70 for a seaplane base, 569 for marine and rail facilities...
...James Louis Kraft, cheese tycoon, went news both profitable and philanthropic last week. His Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. used to dump away yearly thousands of gallons of whey (the watery part of milk left after the curds are removed) or return it to farmers for hog wash. That whey contains most of the milk minerals. To make money from this whey Mr. Kraft some time ago gave Rutgers University funds for research. Rutgers fellows developed a powdered whey which chicken farmers use to keep parasites from their fowls. A year ago Kraft developed Velveeta, a mixture of cheese and whey...
Armour & Co. (Chief 1929 trouble: underestimation of hog supply): $9,810,518 as against...