Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week La Pasionaria de Texas was up to her small ears in a pecan pickers' strike. In a good year San Antonio's 147 pecan shelleries shell 21,000,000 lb. of pecans.* No successful machine has ever been invented to pick pecan meat from pecan shells and the "world's largest pecan shelling centre'' depends upon the family labor of Mexicans and Tex-Mexes (U. S.-born Mexicans). Wages were recently cut from (7? per lb. to 6? for halves, from 6? to 5? for broken pieces -which means that a pecan picker...
...Monday last week a sandaled peasant woman wandered into an abandoned garage and found the body of an 8-year-old girl, Olga Comacho, daughter of a bartender. Her throat was slashed. She had been ravished while returning from the village meat market. Through all the flyspecked rabbit warrens of Tijuana the news spread and quickly more news followed: a soldier from the garrison had been caught with the package of meat Olga Comacho was bringing home...
...Patent Ltd. of a mile of temporary kennels, in which the dogs lay panting, yapping, sleeping, in which handlers & owners, as well, occasionally took refuge. In three days the So tons of dogs were fed four tons of Spratt's dog food, a sop of wheat, meat, bone dust, and water. Foley for his order, Spratt's for their larder, between them pocketed a large slice of the 875.000 laid out by the Club. Other major expenses: $20,000 each for rent of the Garden and for prizes...
...industries most specifically criticized by the Federal Government at the close of 1937 for having hastened the recession by "pricing themselves out of the market" were (1 steel and building materials. 2 automobiles and textiles, 3 meat packing and coal, 4 building material and farm implement, 5 air conditioning and transportation...
...prove that underconsumption (not the cattleman's frequent other trouble, overproduction) is to blame, Chairman Thomas E. Wilson of Wilson & Co. announced that while "normal" U. S. per capita consumption of meat is 146 lb. per year, consumption last year was only 120 lb.. a difference equivalent to 5,600,000 head of cattle. Normal cattle population of the U. S.: 65,000,000. I. A. M. P. plans a nationwide advertising campaign to make people eat up the surplus. Theme: "Market supplies of livestock are such that there is an abundance of meat of improved quality available...