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Word: spam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 27, daughter of Spam's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, and Cristobal Martinez Bordin Ortega y Bascaran, Marques de Villaverde, 32: their third child, first son. Name: Francisco. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 20, 1954 | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...plaudits of the brass by showing meat packers how to bone beef before it was shipped overseas (saving 40% in cargo space), came home to make a fortune for his father's meat-packing company and fame of a different sort in World War II by inventing Spam, a canned pork product, which became the ubiquitous item on Allied military menus the world over. In 1931 Iconoclast Hormel shocked fellow packers by initiating a radical annual-wage plan to help his employees ride out seasonal employment fluctuations, later expanded benefit programs to include joint-earnings systems and a profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

Roast in the Can. Low-priced canned beef will soon be put on the market by Swift, Armour and Hormel to capitalize on the recent drop in beef prices and an anticipated fall surplus of low-grade beef. The chopped-beef luncheon meat will resemble Spam, is expected to sell for 37? to 39? per 12-oz. can (v. about 47? for Spam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

Divorced. By George A. Hormel II, 25, heir to the Hormel meat-packing fortune (Spam) founded by his grandfather: Leslie Caron, 23, French-born Hollywood dancer (Lili); after 30 months of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

Married. Thomas Dubois Hormel, 23, son of Meatpacker Jay Catherwood (Spam) Hormel, and an art student at Palos Verdes College in Rolling Hills, Calif.; and Simone Mostovoy, 20, onetime Parisian ballerina with the Roland Pettit Ballet; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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