Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waldorf lacked as a greeter and as a symbol of the leisurely, intimate dinner, he more than compensated for in his mastery of the art of big-time wining and dining-and of educating thousands of barbarian palates to the delights of Rock Cornish game hen, crab meat Louis and cream of pumpkin soup. Any conclave of hungry and thirsty humans was his meat. "I won Goodyear Tire & Rubber over to pink champagne," he once boasted to a companion. Unexcelled at spreading a gourmet's table, even for the American Trucking Associations, he delighted in explaining to slightly befuddled...
...Boiled semolina with vegetables, meat or fruit added...
...supplement to table scraps, dog owners have bought pet food ever since the late 1920s, when Gaines Meal first sold its dry mix of meat and grain and Ken-L-Ration produced a canned horsemeat mixture. More dogs are fed by the dry foods-Gaines (General Foods), Ralston Purina Dog Chow, Alber's Friskies (Carnation Co.), Gro-Pup (Kellogg Co.). But more poundage is sold in canned "wet" varieties, which made up 65% of the total dog-food weight bought last year, outsold every canned vegetable, used more tin cans than any other product outside of oil and beer...
...meat packers such as Swift (Pard) and Armour (Dash), who first hesitated out of fear that human customers might object, the market proved richer by the year. They stressed the idea of an unvarying diet with a single inclusive food (mostly beef-based, cereal-fortified), crusaded for better dog nutrition. They had an irrefutable pitch: dogs that once brought stags to bay need a different diet because they are now slothful city dwellers that ride in taxicabs, get taken to fancy French restaurants, loll around hot apartments watching television...
...face," says Rival Executive Vice President Joseph Getlin, "is getting across to the housewife-not the dog-the advantages of a nutritious single food." Some vets also disagree with the unvarying ration theory, and at least one company (Laddie Boy) is coming out with such varying dishes as whale meat, hash and eggs. But most big canners still insist that the one-dish menu is right; all have big experimental kennels where they constantly check their formulas on kennels of fine dogs. Says Pard Division Head Clarence M. Olson: "If humans could eat one balanced food such...