Word: packingtown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under Author Stead's high-powered microscope, there are 125 assorted spiders-brokers, customers' men, blackmailers, toadies, shysters, Packingtown countesses, Blue Coast playboys, a bank glamor-girl, a society medium. But although every nation has its representative, the fighting is not on nationalistic lines. "No rich man," says Jules Bertillon, "is a patriot, no rich man a friend. They have all only got one fatherland-the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend-the mistress they're promising to divorce their wife for." Some of the spiders...
Shortly after 4 p. m., the great hay barn of the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. was touched off, authorities believe, by a cigaret butt flicked from careless fingers. The hay acted as a blow torch on the surrounding tinder-like constructions of sprawling Packingtown, the vast stockyards area on Chicago's Southwest Side. Almost daily fires are extinguished in Packingtown. But when the dreaded "all-out" 4-11 signal clanged through the city's firehouses, firemen knew that this was no ordinary stockyards blaze...
Slavering, grunting, squealing, huge paunchy cornfed bellies swaying to their awkward steps, thousands of big pigs went to market last week. In Omaha, in Kansas City and in Chicago's noisome Packingtown they arrived by carload lots. Penned up in long alleys they rooted, grunted and jostled one another with muddy, clammy snouts. In between them marched the buyers for the great meat companies, poking their porky flanks and paunches with sticks and crying the cry of hogs, "Tsaa, tsaa, tsaa." With swift gestures and few words the buyers made their purchases. Four times a day the results were broadcast...
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