Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teenagers, the two brothers worked side by side in the family grocery store - Don behind the meat counter and Dick handling the produce. Despite their differences in personality, there were bonds between them. In 1940, when Dick was interested in a young schoolteacher named Pat Ryan, he kept Don up half the night talking about the types of engagement rings that he had diligently investigated...
...their executives. The economy is blighted. Between January and May, the cost of living had risen 67%; though emergency measures have arrested the climb for the moment, inflation remains a specter. Beef exports, the biggest source of income, have slumped despite the fact that world markets are begging for meat...
Then, too, basic demand is constantly increasing. For example, because more and more people round the world are eating meat-especially prosperous Americans, Europeans and Japanese -trade in feed grains increases an average of 8% to 10% every year. No one can see that trend stopping. The Government reckons that Americans alone will eat 140 Ibs. of beef and veal per person by 1985, up from 118 Ibs. today...
...will be like throwing red meat into the lions' cage," a Washington correspondent predicted, imagining the mood of President Nixon's then still-to-be-scheduled first press conference since Watergate blew up into a major scandal. When the President finally summoned reporters to a confrontation at San Clemente last week-after deciding, out of some mysterious love of surprises, to give scarcely an hour's notice-they were ready to pounce. The result was the most grueling public interrogation of a President in memory...
...Yeshiva University in 1940, he turned to investment banking, and in the late 1960s helped combine a group of small manufacturing companies into AMK Corp. As AMK chairman, he quickly transformed the company into an $840 million-a-year giant by acquiring John Morrell & Co., an ailing meat packer. He then noticed that United Fruit was ripe for picking: its earnings were dwindling, but it had cash reserves of $100 million and no debt. So AMK bought 733,-200 United Fruit shares-10% of the total-in a single block on the open market, in one of the largest transactions...