Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time for Reminders. To Argentines, the speech was a breath-taking turnabout. Evita Peron's newspaper Democracia rose loyally to the new challenge by delivering a forthright attack on meat: "It will wreck your liver, undermine your health, poison you with proteins and provoke serious digestive disturbances." But the presidential conversion gave the Radical Party weekly Adelante a first-class chance to trounce the regime...
...73rd ballet was a smash success, his 74th two nights later was as close to an unqualified flop as Balanchine ever comes. Bayou, danced to a thin and repetitious suite from Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story film score, was simply not Classicist Balanchine's meat. His adventure in Americana was little more than tired cliche...
...Indianapolis' 107-year-old Kingan & Co., Inc. was the seventh largest meat-packing firm in the U.S., but way down the list in profits. To jack them up, Kingan's directors lured H. Frederick Willkie, brother of the late Wendell Willkie, away from his $100,000 vice president's job at Joseph E. Seagram & Sons Inc., installed him as president. Kingan's conservative President "W.R." Sinclair agreed to step aside while Willkie worked on the patient...
...year salary at Kingan because, he said, the job presented a "challenge." It did, in more ways than one. He found that his patient's profit margin was critically low (1½%). He decided to develop high-profit specialty products such as precooked ham loaf, meat spreads and sausages. Willkie also advised a streamlined administration, a big research program, improved sanitation controls and a heavy advertising campaign. The old guard objected to many of Willkie's expensive ideas. Says Willkie: "From the very outset, I [was] blocked and interfered with by the Sinclair family and its palace guard...
...victorious 67-year-old President Sinclair once again bossed Kingan, he recalled: "I started as a meat cutter . . . at ten shillings a week. I didn't like that kind of work, so I figured if I had to be in business, I might as well be boss...