Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even that is not the meat of the order. Center-fielder Larry Cetrulo, who bats second, is carrying a .429 average, as does first baseman Pete Bernhardt. Six of the nine starters are batting over .300. In the last six games, the booming bats have tallied 59 runs to their opponents' nine...
...glass than the typewriter," and notes that "we had Theodore Dreiser, who wrote Sister Carrie and scared everybody in Indiana right out of their wits." He brings up that other literary figure, one James Buchanan Elmore, author of the lines: "My wife has gone ahunting/ Horseradish for her meat." Branigin pauses after that recitation, as if savoring the image, then observes: "This did not sell well...
...tearing. Says Pete Perinchief of Bermuda's top-rated Anglers Club, which hosts an annual tournament limited to 30 lb. and under: "If a guy down here says he's using anything heavier than 30, we ask him if he's turning commercial-going out for meat, ya' know...
Emphasis on processed-meat products (over 60% of total sales last year), which carry greater potential profit margins than fresh meat, partly explains the company's high earnings. But a series of ingenious inventions and industry firsts kept Oscar Mayer in the forefront of the meat-packing industry for decades. In 1929 it was first to break the traditional anonymity of most producers by banding its wieners like cigars with a yellow paper ring. Then it developed an automatic banding machine, automatic linkers and strippers, and in 1950 hit on the idea for vacuum packaging in plastic, which quadrupled...
...Mayer's processing plants across the U.S. have two-story contraptions where uninterrupted battalions of 36,000 wieners an hour glide toward their destination, untouched by human hands. Computers print out the best formulas for the next day's sausage production by comparing current market prices of meat cuts with the various recipes that may be used...