Word: pork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party-line fight against the bill, was disappointed. But he could hardly have been surprised: the public works appropriation was tied to aid for economically depressed areas; as such, it affected the home districts of a vast majority of Representatives. And since when have politicians started voting against the pork barrel...
...This may be an acceptable situation in a meat factory or a steel mill, but newspapers are not pork chops or iron fences. Unless everybody from Jefferson to Mencken and Gerald Johnson has been kidding us. our job is to print the news and raise hell, with the kind permission of Bert Powers if possible, but without it if necessary...
Fishy Existence. The Van Camp family got into canning in Indianapolis in 1861, when Gilbert Jr.'s great-grandfather began packing tomatoes; subsequently his offspring began putting up pork and beans. In 1914 the Van Camps sold off the Indianapolis business-which ultimately fell into the hands of the Stokely family-and headed for California and tuna. Though the Stokelys retain the Van Camp name on their pork-and-beans can, the Van Camps no longer have any interest in pork and beans. But they own 60% of Van Camp Sea Food...
...Hell with a Bucket. Oklahoma's Kerr was also chairman of the Rivers and Harbors subcommittee, which rolls out the pork barrel. When other Senators wanted approval of pet home-state spending projects, they had to come to Kerr-and he always remembered his debtors. He was as ruthless in public debate as in private trading. He once made a Senate speech claiming that Republican Dwight Eisenhower could not comprehend the nation's fiscal policies, "because one cannot do that without brains, and he does not have them." There upon Indiana's loyal but hapless Republican Senator...
...chocolate, pemmican and canned water. In Los Angeles, a Civil Defense warning that retail stores would be closed for five days in the event of war or a national emergency sent housewives stampeding into the supermarkets. In one, hand-to-hand combat broke out over the last can of pork and beans. Said North Hollywood Grocer Sam Goldstad: "They're nuts. One lady's working four shopping carts at once. Another lady bought twelve packages of detergents. What's she going to do, wash up after the bomb?" Yet for all such transient evidences of panic...