Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Best Democratic comment was by Representative McClintic of Oklahoma: "The working man may worry because his shoes will cost a dollar or two more but truffles for his paté de foie gras are on the free list. . . . His sugar bill goes up as does his milk bill and his meat bill but he can get Gobelin tapestries for his humble home duty free...
Without the scowl but with butchery in heart, Meat-Dresser Campolo last week met in a Brooklyn fight ring the recurrent Thomas Heeney of Australia, who since his battle with onetime Champion Tunney has been married, grown fat, taken maulings in two of his three fights. The prodigious Campolo, dominating Heeney half a foot in height, 20 pounds in weight, many inches in reach,* needed no glower to terrorize. Undaunted, Heeney charged the massive Argentine, belted him soundingly, won several early rounds. Frequently Campolo turned his head, spat nervously, was biffed. Then in round eight, Campolo unloosed a right uppercut...
...Government started anti-trust suits against the four national meat packers-Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Wilson & Co., Cudahy Packing Co. There was no trial, for the packers went into court and consented to having a decree issued forbidding them to deal in other products than meat and its derivatives, likewise forbidding them to establish retail stores. In nine years, two major attempts have been made to have the decree rescinded. The U. S. Supreme Court in all its venerability each time reaffirmed the decree...
...week a third move was made. Armour and Swift petitioned the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to modify the decree. Reason: that times have changed. Two arguments they made in chief: 1) that there are now 70,000 chain stores in the country, many of them selling meat. Already the chains are going into meat packing to supply their requirements-one chain already owns two packing plants and a sausage factory. The effect of the decree is therefore not to prevent the large packers from treading on others, but to be trod upon-to make them subject...
...That the packers' branch distributing agencies could, without extra cost, handle other products than meat. At present the entire cost of the branch agencies must be born by meat, which is an economic waste and increases prices to the public...