Word: purina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most chickens are grown by such large companies as Ralston Purina or by co-ops of dozens of growers. But modern methods have enabled individual growers to become big. The richest and one of the biggest independent growers in the U.S. is balding Bennie Clyde Rogers, 58, of Morton, Miss., who has 6,000,000 birds under his wing and boasts that last year his several businesses grossed $40 million. Rogers started as a feed salesman, swapping his Purina chicken feed for eggs from hard-pressed farmers during the Depression and piling up wealth with dried eggs during World...
Foods & Containers Ralston Purina...
...unchivalrous evaluation of the film actress in Ricketts' column "On the Town": "There are gals in Hollywood who have more sex appeal in their eyelashes than Marilyn can cram into a gownless evening strap. They can also deliver dialogue without sounding like their mouths are full of Purina...