Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only a mile away from the Winstead family: "I didn't know she was so young. Nine's a little early. Anyway, they had a license and she told me she was old enough to know her own mind. . . . It's hard to get bread and meat in this section, so I thought so long as some other one was going to marry them, I might as well do it. I just told them to join hands and stand in the middle of the road. It was outdoors. I didn't even take...
...Depression. Gains were widest in capital goods industries like steel, whose markets contract and expand directly with the business cycle. After a study of 161 corporations, Standard Statistics estimated that earnings in the capital goods industries were up about 80%, in the consumer industries, about 40%. Bread & Meat-Standard Brands, Inc. (Fleischmann's Yeast, Royal Baking Powder, Chase & Sanborn Coffee) made $14,727,000 compared to a satisfying $12,744,000 in 1935. Ward Baking Corp. made $1,838,000 compared...
...Packing the best gains were made outside the Big Four. Indeed, Swift & Co., No. 1 meat handler of the U. S., reported a sharp drop in profits ($17,651,000 to $12,103,000) in spite of the fact that sales were $831,671,000 and tonnage at an all-time peak. Wilson & Co. showed a slight decline ($4,068,000 as against $4,109,000). Basic reason for this countertrend in a year of expanding industrial earnings was the confusion in meat markets caused by invalidation of AAA processing taxes and the subsequent drought, which forced farmers to slaughter...
Adequate proof of the proverb that "One man's meat is another man's poison," if nothing else, has emerged from the guerrilla struggle between the Harvard Maintenance and the United States Post Office Departments which has been raging in the basement of University Hall to such an extent that Martial Law has been declared in the University News Office...
...Argentine business" that bothered Mr. Mitchell is an unratified sanitary convention to replace the present embargo on Argentine meat, promulgated ostensibly to keep out foot & mouth disease. The sanitary convention would admit meat from uninfected Argentine districts instead of considering the whole country under a foot & mouth quarantine...