Word: lockerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...areas, but lockermen have their eyes on the big city markets. They say, for example, that housewives can save $100 on the annual meat bill of a family of five by buying a side of beef wholesale at a little better than half the retail price and having a locker plant's butcher cut and freeze it. Apostle of this drive to invade the cities is stumpy, chipper, leather-lunged Alfred Michael Reilly, Baker's Chicago sales engineer, who has peddled ice machinery for 27 years. Weekly he delivers lectures to persuade Midwest businessmen to scrape...
...lack easy means of preserving for their own use food which they raise, he saw the possibility of a new market for ice machinery: plants to freeze and store food for the public. The idea took years to catch on. But today thousands of farmers go to cold-storage locker plants, rent lockers big enough to hold 250 Ibs. of meat (or 6½ cu. ft. of any food) for $10 a year. The plants quick-freeze their meat. They also slaughter animals (at $2 a head for cattle, $1.50 for hogs, 75? for sheep) and prepare and freeze vegetables...
Iowa, which had nary a plant in 1933, now has 500 of them. Last year 3,000 U. S. locker plants did a gross business of $20,000,000. By 1940's end the completion of 750 new plants is expected to up the industry's investment to $45,000,000. Baker Ice Machine Co., of which Roger Sprague is now sales head, last year made $400,000 worth of refrigerating machinery for new locker plants - about a third of the U. S. business in that field...
When Art Bosworth, Al Waldron, and Lonnie Stowell slipped through the 300 yard medley relay in 3:03, a yard ahead of Bud Wilcox, Matt Soltysiak, and Jack Perritt, the Bruins had one foot in Davy Jones locker...
From the Press Table: The Big Green Varsity loss was a blow to Karl Michael, swimming mentor at Hanover, since the meet was Dartmouth's first under his tutelage. It is a reported that the Spaulding Pool locker-rooms were liberally sprinkled with signs reading, "Beat Harvard!" . . . . President Ernest Martin Hopkins was in attendance . . . Crimson divers told lurid tales about the low-hanging chandeliers above the board...