Word: pig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandson, 26-year-old Fowler McCormick, heir to International Harvester Co. millions. Fowler McCormick went to work at $35 a week for the company his other grandfather founded, lived in a $4-a-week boarding house, pitched horseshoes with his fellow workmen during lunch hour. From heaving 200-lb. pig iron ingots, he moved to engineering and on to sales, becoming assistant manager of domestic sales in 1933. Last week hard-working Fowler McCormick was elected vice president in charge of foreign sales...
Even Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs" are among the works of art that lend themselves to parody. For of "the three little pigs who went to the Big Three, the pig that was expelled from Yale was the happiest of the bunch...
...metals in Earth's crust, yet it can be produced profitably from only one ore, reddish-brown bauxite, and it is produced in the U. S. by only one company, Aluminum Co. of America, which holds U. S. patents on the only profitable process. Aluminum Co. sells aluminum pig to independent fabricators but has its own fabricating subsidiaries to compete with them. Thus although most of the pistons in Ford cars are of Mr. Bohn's Bohnalite some are of Aluminum Co.'s Lynite. Mr. Bohn is not vitally disturbed by Aluminum Co.'s control...
Beneath the Hudson River, one midnight, Patrolman Raymond L. Pine caught a sleek young pig trotting westward through the Holland Tunnel from Manhattan toward Jersey City...
...this Reader many owe their knowledge of the fact that the name of Abou Ben Adhem "led all the rest." Now, with Caroline Norton, one reads about the "soldiers of the Legion" who "lay dying in Algiers," and then he turns to Charles Lamb's "Dissertation on Roast Pig." How many thousands of youngsters have been fired by Webster's "Supposed Speech of John Adams" and how many have laughed over Hawthorne's "Rill from the Town Pump...