Word: ralston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down the hand of comradeship and saying 'Come on up higher. You did a swell job down there on earth . . .' " By the time all the spizzerincta were spizzed out, Mayor Sensenbrenner was out of office. Winner, to everybody's surprise but his own, was lackluster Wallace Ralston Westlake, 52, independent Republican city council president. Westlake made a colorless "nice guy" campaign for better city leadership, was helped immeasurably by voter irritation over sloppy Sensenbrenner administration and corruption in the police department. He won by 5,000 votes...
...methods have proved just as successful abroad as in the U.S. For example, in England, Farmer Anthony Fisher tried his hand at dairying. After his herd died of foot-and-mouth disease he was about ready to quit. Hearing about the U.S. system of raising broilers, he wrote to Ralston Purina Co. to get free brochures on how to do it. He started out with 200 birds. Now his output has grown to 1,000,000 a year. The broiler king of England, he has one packing plant, plans another to process his chickens and those of his imitators...
...names rise above factories everywhere : Goodyear, Westinghouse, Monsanto, Kelvinator, General Electric, Pennsalt, Singer Sewing Machine, Carnation Milk, Ralston Purina, Kellogg. Mexicans flock to Dairy Queen frozen-custard stands in Chevies, Plymouths and Fords labeled "Made in Mexico by Mexicans...
...supplement to table scraps, dog owners have bought pet food ever since the late 1920s, when Gaines Meal first sold its dry mix of meat and grain and Ken-L-Ration produced a canned horsemeat mixture. More dogs are fed by the dry foods-Gaines (General Foods), Ralston Purina Dog Chow, Alber's Friskies (Carnation Co.), Gro-Pup (Kellogg Co.). But more poundage is sold in canned "wet" varieties, which made up 65% of the total dog-food weight bought last year, outsold every canned vegetable, used more tin cans than any other product outside of oil and beer...
...suit intended to deprive him of control. In the suit, a New York accountant charged Yates with improper stock deals and with running Republic "as though it were a private business.'' Supporting item in the complaint: for years Yates has been casting his wife, aging (37) Vera Ralston, possibly one of the most wooden actresses ever to appear on a screen, in a series of money-losing movies (Lady and the Monster, Belle Le Grand...