Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once publisher of the newspaper trade journal Fourth Estate, organizer and first president of Columbia Broadcasting System, 51-year-old Harry Newman is best known to newspapermen as the clever promotion expert who undertook in 1927 to make America reindeer-meat conscious, so that rich Arthur & Leonard Baldwin could realize profits on their $6,000,000 reindeer business in Alaska. Mr. Newman sold many a leading newspaper his Christmas circulation promotion stunt which had as its climax the arrival of Santa Claus on local streets in a jingling sleigh drawn by a reindeer team. With a publicist's acumen...
...causes of these outbreaks are varied. Protein decomposition is probably the commonest cause. Meat and meat products of all kinds, fish, shellfish, milk, and milk products, such as cream, ice cream, cheese and all substances made with milk, such as pastry and pie fillings, may be the cause of the disturbance...
...solution is not a simple one. In past years, when the route of food from producer to consumer was direct and the food passed through few hands, little difficulty was encountered. Now our milk comes from Vermont, and passess through a dozen processes before we drink it. Meat comes from Chicago, fresh vegetables from South Carolina and Texas, fruit from Florida, Oregon, or the tropics...
...outsider by a long shot. Charles H. Swift stays as chair-man of the board. Gustavus F. Swift and Harold H. Swift, as vice chairmen, intend to let Mr. Holmes take care of the routine matters involved in managing a business which sells nearly a billion dollars worth of meat and provisions annually and is expected to make as much money this year as last when it reported profits...
...bitten epitaphs from an imaginary small-town graveyard, entitled the collection Spoon River Anthology. Bizarre in 1915, the book's candor seems natural in 1937, thus serves as a calculus of the reading public's growing ability to accept life's poison with life's meat...