Word: meats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tempestuous, highbrowed Jay Catherwood Hormel, president of meat-packing (Geo. A.) Hormel & Co., World War II is anathema. How to keep the U. S. out of it has become his most solemn thought. Month ago at Chicago's American Legion Convention he got a bright idea: a popular song, a song that would sweep the nation like Barney Google or The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round...
...feeling for box office several years ago. To push Hormel's chile con carne, he cooked up an expensive musical show called the "Hormel Chile-Beaners," sent it barnstorming through Minnesota. It salted away Jay C.'s right to the title of the Billy Rose of the meat packers...
None of these pyrotechnics has hurt Hormel's business. Since Jay C. took over, his company has had only one bad year: a $608,779 deficit in 1931. Last year it netted a comfortable $1,031,574 profit on sales of $56,921,648 worth of meat, vegetables, poultry products, paid a $1.50 dividend on 474,990 shares of common...
Thus in many ways the strain of warfare is more visible in neutral Italy than in warring France or Britain. Italians who used to drink from five to six cups of coffee daily have had to cut it out altogether. Gasoline is strictly rationed. The wartime one-meat-course meal has been ordered and instead of one voluntary meatless day a week (Friday), there are now two enforced ones (Thursday and Friday). Such luxuries as night clubs have been prohibited altogether...
...rsten Strasse, they could sit around the newsmen's stammtisch (regular customers' table) sipping their brandy-and-lemon Nikolaevskys long after Berlin's 1 a.m. war curfew, when other restaurants closed. As a special favor the Government gave them laborers' rations: two pounds of meat a week, instead of the single pound allotted to white-collar workers...