Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extinction except in a Zululand preserve and along the Upper Nile is the white (actually grey) rhinoceros. Only elephants are bigger than this creature. As long as 15 ft., very fast, agile and ferocious when angry, its charge is usually impotent because of its poor eyesight. Connoisseurs call the meat delicious...
...absorb, biscuit bakers and packaged food concerns will probably gain from bigger volume at lower prices. Last year their attempts to pass the tax on to the consumers made many customers so mad that they organized "buyers' strikes." Starting as a protest against the high price of meat, these strikes were ultimately directed against nearly all high-priced groceries. Last week such users of grains as distillers and corn refiners were considering passing on to the public some of the tax saving...
Pleased last week with the world, the flesh and the U. S. Supreme Court were Gustavus F. Swift, Robert H. Cabell, Edward Aloysius Cudahy, Edward Foss Wilson, all U. S. packers of meat. In November 1933, the U. S. Government begar collecting a pork-processing tax. Set at $2.25 per cwt. of pig slaughtered, the tax yielded $255,000,000 by June 1935. Then packers went to court, got injunctions against further tax collections until AAA's constitutionality could be determined. The special tax funds, in escrow, awaited the Supreme Court's decision. Last fortnight the AAA became...
Most packers' fiscal years end abou Nov. 1. In fiscal 1935 the four big packers made some $32,000,000. In order to reap this profit, they had to sell no less than $1,850,000,000 worth of meat, butter, eggs, fertilizer, byproducts. The earnings amounted to only 1.7? per $1 of sale, but packers have long since grown accustomed to getting along on this modest ratio. The year was marked by a shortage of livestock. During 1935 only 29,266,000 little pigs went to market, compared to 44,398,000 in 1934. Total meat supply...
...most packers, Armour turned the corner in 1933, had a good year in 1934. In 1935. sales of $683,000,000 produced profit of only $9,349,000, leaving Armor with only 1.37? profit per dollar of sale. Mr. Cabell said he had observed "considerable consumer resistance" to high meat prices...