Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead, every day from the Bijur kitchen ten to 15 Ibs. of meat, seven to ten Ibs. of butter, 18 to 20 loaves of bread have gone to nourish the strikers. The servants do most of the labor, Mrs. Bijur sometimes helps (see cut). To protest the banking department's failure to rehire the strikers, the Bijurs last month refused to pay rent until served with a dispossess notice. Mrs. Bijur trudged up & down four flights of stairs rather than use the elevator and condone the presence of strike breakers, some of whom have joined...
...some time ago began to knobble U. S. competition. She reportedly "requested" Argentina not to use British sterling to balance her obligations to the U. S., and Argentina is anxious to keep the economic patronage of a nation which buys the largest share of her chief products, grains and meat. Three months ago Argentina went further, set up a rigid exchange control plan...
...favor. The U. S. (except when the 1935-37 drought necessitated unusual imports of Argentine grain) ordinarily buys less from Argentina than she sells her, does not enjoy Argentina's favor. Long a sore point with Argentina is the prohibition against the import of fresh Argentine meat to the U. S., a ban largely due to the claims of lobbyists from cattle & sheep-raising western States that Argentine meat comes from livestock suffering from hoof-and-mouth disease...
George A. Hormel was an industrial nonconformist. Practically ostracized industrially by other meat packers for stumping for a 30-hour week, he retired to California in 1927 and turned his business over to his son, Jay Catherwood Hormel...
...Legation was located. Every day he walked ten miles to work, seized every opportunity to learn English and study the commercial ways of Americans. Goggle-eyed with admiration for all things American, he stole American food from the kitchen, and even strangled pigs, dogs and rats to get meat which he thought would make him civilized and powerful like the foreigners...