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RECORD FOOD SUPPLIES will keep prices stable this year, says the Agriculture Department. Though poultry production will drop about 3%, pork, lard, coffee, citrus products, rice and other grains will rise from 1% to 14% next year...
...remains chief executive officer. Holmes, the first non-Swift to be president, replaced Harold Higgins Swift, 70, who becomes honorary chairman. Jarvis majored in animal husbandry at Iowa State College ('24), later took a meat-packing course at the University of Chicago. There his thesis on packaged lard caught the eye of a visiting executive from Swift, who offered him a trainee job with the company. In 1933 he became assistant to Holmes, then vice president in charge of the pork division, later moved up to vice president...
...pickpockets than the opposition. Back in 1951 a Harvard defensive unit held off a swarm of righteous Princetons for a full 20 minutes. That same year when the Crimson beat Brown officials had attempted to foil the raiders by covering the posts with a thick coat of lard. But blue blazers were used to wipe the posts clean enough to permit razing...
...dismal stretch the Giants lost 11 in a row. It was a test of fire for loyal followers, and many a diehard, headed for Coogan's Bluff, was heard to mutter lamely that he was going out to the ballpark, only because he needed a sunbath. The lard-encased Manhattan saloonkeeper, Toots Shor, once spoke the agony of all Giant fans in one gloomy flirtation with apostasy. "I been wonderin' lately," he told a friend. "I'm raising my kids to be Giant fans. I don't know whether I'm doing the right thing...
...journey back home that the Easterners feared most. The despised Volkspolizei were now checking all trains. Often they confiscated the parcels outright, and sent the lard, canned milk and beans along to their barracks. But those who merely lost their much needed gifts were lucky. The Vopos fined or arrested many. Some were accused of being American agents, a crime punishable by imprisonment or death, and to others the courts began meting out prison sentences as drastic as five years. On top of threat and punishment, the Reds tried by public ridicule to halt the sad parade of their hungry...