Word: spam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is only one more example of young (47) Jay C.'s industrial nonconformism. From the Hormel plant at Austin, Minn., he upset the packing industry with canned whole ham, spiced ham, canned whole chicken, beef stock soups and, lately, Spam (canned pork for making spam-wiches, etc.). There two years ago he signed a closed shop contract with C. I. O., defying packing industry precedent. He also guaranteed his workers 52 paychecks a year, and this year started a joint earnings plan which lets employes share the Hormel surplus (if any) with stockholders on a profits-wages ratio...
...half of these have been damaged or sunk by Rightist Generalissimo Franco's air force in the last two months. Making political capital out of British resentment to these attacks, Opposition forces last week demanded that the Chamberlain Government employ naval protection for British merchantmen venturing into Leftist Spam's ports. Bluntly, the Prime Minister replied: to bring the British navy into play would mean active intervention in the conflict, and his Government were determined not to risk the general European war which might result. Furthermore, Mr. Chamberlain admitted, almost casually, "While the war lasts we must expect...
Died. Juan de la Cierva, 74, reactionary Minister of Justice in Spam's last cabinet under King Alfonso; of diabetes; at Madrid's Norwegian Legation, where he had hidden all through the civil war. He died not knowing that his namesake son, inventor of the autogiro, had been killed in a K. L. M. air crash 13 months before (TIME...
...Austrian friend last week gave the press an account of Dr. Hanfstaengl's abrupt departure from Germany: He got a telephone call asking him to go to Spam as a special courier of Hitler, hurried to the waiting plane. At Leipzig, where the plane halted, he became definitely uneasy when a group of Hitler special guards climbed into the ship. At this point Putzy opened a letter just handed to him. It said that since he thought so little of General Franco and so much of the Red Government in Spain he was to receive an opportunity to meet...
...year after the opening of Spam's bloody, but undermanned civil war, neither Leftists nor Rightists lack able staff officers. What both sides do need is enough troops for effective action on five separate fronts that snake for nearly 1,200 miles down the midriff of Spain. For some months military observers on both sides have cynically propounded a convenient rule: they will concede definite military superiority to whichever side is able to maintain an offensive for three successive days...