Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This nation, he went on, must "cry out against the phony anti-Communism that mocks our way of life, flouts our traditions and democratic procedures and our sense of fair play, feeds on the meat of suspicion and grows great on the dissension among Americans which it cynically creates and keeps alive by the mad pursuit of headlines...
Divorced. By George A. Hormel II, 25, heir to the Hormel meat-packing fortune (Spam) founded by his grandfather: Leslie Caron, 23, French-born Hollywood dancer (Lili); after 30 months of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...country of central Australia, was a camel driver. He also did odd jobs for the Lutheran mission at tiny (pop. 242) Hermannsburg, 1,300 miles northwest of Sydney. The missionaries paid him in clothes and rations of European food, with which Albert supplemented the native "bush tucker" of kangaroo meat, honey ants and fat grubs...
Among the antitrust suits left over by the Truman Administration was one filed in 1948 against the meat industry's big four-Armour, Swift, Wilson and Cudahy. Charging them with monopolistic practices dating back to 1893, the Justice Department wanted to break the companies up into 14 separate firms. But when a Federal District judge banned any evidence before 1930, the meat was gone from the meatpacker case, and the Democrats left it in a sort of legal limbo for the Republicans...
...suit. After months of looking into every possible way to carry on, the Justice Department decided-with the full concurrence of lawyers and section chiefs held over from the Democratic Administration-that it lacked sufficient evidence. For one thing, the big four's share of the U.S. meat market has shrunk from one-half to less than one-third in the last ten years, while 800 independents have stepped to the fore. Furthermore, the department could find no independents willing to file a complaint against the big four and no consumers who thought they were being victimized. Said Brownell...