Word: packers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...concentrated locations, and they feed a total of 150,000 head. (By December Gow plans to expand to 250,000.) The yards fatten a 650-lb. steer at the rate of 3.1 lbs. per day. Five months and some 490 lbs. later, the steer is shipped off to a packer. "It's a big operation," Gow says. "We have vets and nutritionists; the cattle are checked twice a day. We have a good drainage system, which means our cattle don't have to stand in mud. It's a hotel for cattle." In order to cut costs...
...often sells it to a meatpacker for a few cents less per pound than he bought it. The feedlot operator hopes to profit by adding considerable weight to the animal in a relatively short time, but his problem lately has been that feed costs have risen sharply. The packer who slaughters the calf adds a markup, but his margins have been pared by increasing labor and transportation costs. The retailer, who often dresses a 600-pound carcass into a variety of table meats, adds still another markup, but his own profits have been crimped by rising costs of everything from...
...last fling before adulthood closed in? The jobs Fuller held in early manhood might lead one to think so: machine fitter in a cotton mill. Navy ensign during World War I, managing exports for a meat packer and sales for a truck company. The presidency of the Stockade Building System (1922-27) sounds more like it. Fuller and his father-in-law copatented a tough, light substitute for bricks that eliminated the need for hod carriers and mortars. Holes in the blocks were lined up and cement poured in. Both the brick industry and the unions ganged up against...
Correspondence Courses. Anne and her husband Johannes, 35. who have a two-year-old son Olvar, share the job of packer in a drug supply firm. "Our employer doesn't mind at all," says Johannes, "as long as there is always one Bulko signing in in the morning." In fact, it was Johannes who minded at first: "I was scared I would lose my masculinity if I did the housework and changed the baby's nappies. But that soon changed." Anne calls the new arrangement "marvelous," both for herself and for her son, who benefits from seeing more...