Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record," he says, "but I studied by kerosene. We had no electricity. There were no paved roads. In my childhood, this country was still raw frontier." Connally's grandparents lived in the Floresville area, as did his parents. His father had been a tenant farmer, then ran a meat market and worked as a laborer before the family moved on to San Antonio when John was ten. There his father drove a bus from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, covering the 144-mile, one-way round trip each...
Americans are eating more meat than ever before, and the $14 billion meat-packing industry is patting its tummy with satisfaction. This year Americans will consume more than 32 billion Ibs. of beef, pork, veal and lamb, or 170 Ibs. per person. The meat packers are ready for the rush. The past few years have been lean ones for the industry, which suffered from inefficiency, slowness to change, and overcapacity created by allegiance to outdated methods of processing and marketing. But the meat packers have learned to adjust to a new era of supermarketing and new methods of livestock-raising...
...Meat of the Matter Sir: Investigations into the story of meat reputedly being shipped to Australia from South America and thence to West Germany [Dec. 6] show that this in fact did not happen. The meat came directly from South America, accompanied by forged and falsified documents that made it appear to have come from Australia. In the interests of the Australian meat trade with the United States, I am very anxious to have this matter corrected...
...private piano recital by Texas' own Van Cliburn, a sing-along with a trio of Texas folk singers called the Wanderers Three, and a performance by a local comedian named "Cactus" Pryor. And lying in wait for the Erhard palate were piles of pungent deer-meat sausage, snowy peaks of hominy grits, pits full of barbecued beef, and a rich chocolaty cake topped with coconut-pecan frosting made from a recipe brought to Texas by Germans who settled in nearby Fredericksburg...
...growing 9% annually. Led by the biggest manufacturer, International Minerals & Chemical Corp. of Skokie, Ill., some 20 companies have plowed into the field, including such chemical giants as W. R. Grace, Monsanto, Allied and Du Pont. Since few farmers still rely on the less effective animal fertilizers, many meat packers-including Armour and Swift -have kept up with the times by diversifying into chemical fertilizers. Lately, half a dozen U.S. oil companies-among them, Gulf, Socony Mobil, Cities Service and Kerr-McGee-have come into the business in a big way by buying up smaller fertilizer companies as marketing arms...