Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quadroon) and Ignatius Sancho, "the forgotten man of letters"; an argument against birth control with detailed objections to contraceptives; a debate, "Is It Possible for the Church to Serve the Modern Youth?" Jokes were also included. Sample: Big Congo Chief-"Waiter, where's that roast white meat I ordered an hour ergo?" Congo Waiter-"The missionary ship is an hour late, sir!" Nearly 50,000 copies of the first issue were quickly grabbed up. But not all Negroes heaped praise upon the magazine simply because it is by and for Negroes. Said Colyumist-Critic Theophilus Wells of the Amsterdam...
Chicken is the favorite meat with fricassee of lamb and stews of various ingredients running well up in the first ten. For every student at breakfast at least one piece of toast is consumed...
...legal history. In 1919 the U. S. moved to sue Armour, Swift, Wilson, Cudahy and Morris (since absorbed by Armour), great packers all, for violating the Anti-Trust Law. The Government's charge: they were attempting to create a food monopoly by handling 114 food products other than meat (canned fruits, canned vegetables, dairy goods, cereals), by retailing their own products, by buying heavily into cold storage, stockyard and terminal railroad companies. The packers settled the suit by consenting to drop all production unrelated to the meat industry, to abandon the retail field. In 1920 a Federal Court ratified this...
...stores have increased from 20,000 to 65,000, with some 3,000 systems now in the field. Small packers, not bound by the consent decree, have gone into the retail trade, done the very things the large packers were prohibited from doing. Chain store systems have invaded the meat packing industry. Armour and Swift have naturally felt handicapped. They are doing a food business on a 1920 basis while their competitors operate with 1930 methods...
...asked Justice Jennings Bailey to allow them to: 1) own and operate retail markets; 2) deal in the 114 food products now prohibited; 3) own interests in stockyard companies and terminal railroads. They were ready to show that their refrigerator cars, from the roofs of which they hang their meat, have large unoccupied spaces below in which canned goods could be economically transported. New, quick processes for freezing meat have opened up new retailing possibilities. Lawyer Hogan's chief argument: times have changed, and nobody could possibly monopolize the country's $24,000,000,000 annual food business...