Word: perk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Today, Perk's profits provide P.G.D.F. with 90% of its operating costs, pay for the guide dogs and their training (i.e., instructor fee, room & board) for blind persons who could not otherwise have afforded them...
...Henry Staffel, 52, Chicago meat packer and owner of the Perk Dog Food Co., teamed up with a new business partner: Bishop Bernard Sheil, Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Chicago and founder of the Pilot Guide Dog Foundation, which supplies free dogs to the blind. Their agreement was no ordinary business deal. Staffel, who had long wanted to do something for the blind, agreed to turn over to the foundation "forever" the profits on every can (about a penny) of Perk Dog Food for which a label was mailed in to Bishop Sheil. "I had no idea at the time...
Last week the 125 millionth Perk label came into the foundation's Chicago office. And out from Staffel went another check, bringing the total of profit payments since...
Even though Staffers agreement has cut heavily into profits on Perk, which now accounts for one-third of his business, he has plenty of other profitmaking products (he owns the Ready Foods Canning Corp. and the Roger Staffel Meat Co.) to keep him going. Born in Chicago, Staffel started working when he was 16, was managing a meat-packing plant by the time he was 21. In 1934 he started Ready Foods, followed with Perk, since the war has opened a provision business, two slaughtering houses, one canning plant and bought a boneless-roasted-turkey business. Says Staffel...
...stopped counting victories in the 15-match contest until they hit 14. But after reaching its peak for that triumph, the team's spirit dropped off a little, and even the favored doubles team got whipped in the New England Intercollegiates on Saturday. Barnaby's job now is to perk his players up again for Dartmouth without letting them get too overconfident...