Word: locker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the many people who do not like Captain Cunningham-Reid is Commander Oliver S. Locker-Lampson, M.P., who organized the Blue Shirts in 1931 to "clear out the Reds." When Britain broke relations with Russia and the Blue Shirts faded, the Commander announced that Britain had become a "vassal" of the U.S. The future looked blue, he said, unless Britain could "build up beneath her flag an Empire, currency and credit to conquer and save the world." Among the many people who do not like Commander Locker-Lampson is Captain Cunningham-Reid...
...citizen rents a locker at $7-$20 a year, buys meat, vegetables and fruit at wholesale prices, stores it away, eats it months or even years later. For safe preservation, most locker plants use the "sharp-freeze" method, whereby food is flash-frozen at minus 20-30° F., wrapped in special paper, stored away in the lockers at zero. Modern food banks are really small local packing plants. For the farmer some food banks will slaughter, chill, cut, smoke or freeze, and package. For the urbanite they buy whole sides of beef from the meat wholesaler...
Packers and Canners. Typical food-locker plant is Los Angeles' Frosted Food Lockers, Inc., which started in 1940 with 1,500 knocked-down white enameled lockers (cost: $1.50 each) and an eye on a local ice plant. The outfit thrived from the start. All lockers were paid off the first year. Last fall the rush piled 2,500 deer nearly 30 feet high in the cutting room and the annual gross hit $20,000-good for any local business...
This prosperity has brought trouble. With a fat slice of their business going into private lockers, the big packers and canners started an all-out push to head off the newcomer. When war started WPB slapped a pile of restrictions on food-locker plants and equipment, forced prospective builders through at least six different agencies before they even sniffed a priority. Then out of nowhere came the rumor: food lockers were to blame for the meat shortage. Even the industry fell down: WPB ordered locker manufacturers to stop chiseling on steel...
Suddenly things got better. OPA dug into U.S. food lockers, came up announcing that they held less than 1% of the nation's meat supply. Better still, OPA declared locker-meat would be considered home supply, would not be rationed. WPB followed through by easing restrictions on locker-box output. Last week Washington agreed with Mrs. Coultas of Des Moines -food lockers were a good thing, for those who had them...