Word: hormel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was one bit of happy news for consumers: predictions of record harvests this fall caused farm prices to fall 6% in the month ended April 15, the second straight decline. Citing lower livestock costs, the Hormel packing company cut the price of its meat products by 7% to 14%. Among other things, the price of Spam will drop...
...state harbors some of the nation's fastest-growing computer companies?Honeywell Inc., Control Data Corp., Univac?along with a diversity of such other corporations as 3M Co., General Mills Inc., Geo. A. Hormel & Co., Pillsbury Co., and Investors Diversified Services Inc., one of the world's largest mutual fund conglomerates. The University of Minnesota, whose alumni and faculty have included seven Nobel laureates, ranks among the nation's best. It helped to develop the Salk vaccine, open-heart surgery, blight-resistant wheat. The Mayo Clinic remains America's secular Lourdes. Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater displays some of the most...
...uncontrolled raw farm goods. In New York and other large cities, eggs rose from about 89? per doz. in supermarkets to 98?, and as high as $1.19 at small groceries. Center-cut pork chops in Chicago climbed 20? per lb., to $1.69; they were $1.89 in Los Angeles. The Hormel Co. fattened the price of a 12-oz. can of pork-based Spam by 16?; it is now selling for about 85?. Chicken was up 10? per lb., to about 65? in Atlanta, 69? in New York -and rising...
Early in the Cavett crusade, maverick FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, a frequent guest on the show, telephoned Cavett from Washington to ask how he could help. Soon sponsors began to rally round. "The Cavett show is an outstanding buy that delivers a quality audience," wrote Hormel Marketing Director Thomas Purcell in a letter to ABC. "The general ratings really don't mean that much. What counts is the people the show is reaching...