Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge Fire Chief Vincent F. Galvine called it the biggest and potentially the most dangerous fire he had seen in 23 years of experience, but said that damage was small in financial terms. Formerly used for meat packing, the building had been scheduled for demolition...
More than 1000 firemen fought a persistent general alarm fire which destroyed a deserted seven-story Swift & Co. meat-packing plant in the Lechmere Square area yesterday...
...FOOD. In the year 2000, Americans may eat less than they do now. But they wil demand more of such expensive items as meat, fruit and dairy products. Filling this demand will be no problem if agricultural techniques already known are applied more widely...
...trend is Prisunic (One-Price), the Continent's largest retail chain and a sort of bouillabaisse of the U.S. five-and-dime store, the discount house and the supermarket. In Prisunic's 304 stores, shoppers avidly fill their carts with blue jeans and brassières, meat and mushrooms, toys and tools-while canned music wafts across crowded aisles, pretty girls demonstrate how to cook frozen foods, and cash registers tinkle at busy check-out counters...
...business in the past decade, has also angered major manufacturers whose products they undersell. The French are glad of the price saving and the convenience, but they are reluctant to give up all their marketing traditions even for Prisunic. Most Prisunic shoppers still insist on scrutinizing their meat without any of that cellophane around it, having their choice from an impressive selection of France's 300 varieties of cheese, and buying their Prisunic vin rouge (usually from Algeria or the Midi) right out of the spigot (25? a bottle). And, efficiency or not, many Prisunic stores close down promptly...