Word: meats
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...electronic and related technical businesses now employ more than 70,000 people. Food companies, however, still lead the state in employment. Minneapolis-based companies produce more than half the cakes in the nation, for example. Minnesota leads the U.S. in butter production, is second in dry milk, third in meat production...
Like the state itself, Anderson can sometimes seem almost too good to be true. The son of a meat packer, he is something of a populist, an anti-elitist and egalitarian. He has athletic dash and youthful charm that make many of his constituents think of a Midwestern Kennedy. But Harry S. Truman, not J.F.K., is Anderson's hero. He is uncomfortable with great wealth. Says he: "I identify with Truman, Humphrey and Mondale. All of them were poor, close to working people and came from rural backgrounds. It's tougher for me to identify with F.D.R. and J.F.K...
...Nixon had offered a makeshift, transitory response to a problem of bread-and-butter, because politically he could not do otherwise," White says. "But in doing so he had opened a new chapter of American history. The postwar world was thoroughly over, at home as abroad, at the meat counter as in Viet...
...hour before the wet dawn of Nov. 4, 1966, the swollen Arno River sent cataracts of water sluicing through the narrow streets of Florence and deposited half a million tons of mud, silt, rotting butchers' meat, excrement and sticky black fuel oil on the city's stone and stucco. At that moment, the future of the city and its artistic heritage seemed uncertain. The water was everywhere-soaking into the fragile wood of old carvings and panel paintings, expanding its cells and cracking it, seeping up inside walls and working outward through the surface of their frescoes, causing...
...uncontrolled prices and sell at controlled prices. The number of cattle slaughtered at packing plants dropped 10% two weeks ago and plunged an estimated 23% last week. At least 40 plants shut down throughout the Middle West. There were reports of cattle rustling in Utah and a hijacked meat truck in Stamford, Conn. Canadian operators were buying cattle in the U.S., dressing it in Canada and selling it back to the U.S. at prices above freeze levels because there is no freeze on imports...