Word: stockyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commission ' about the way he ran his business. For five hours, Judson squirmed and squinted through the cigar smoke and a rain of questions. When the air was clear again, spectators had learned that U. S. music was organized and run as unromantically as any chain store, or stockyard...
Frankfurter, the third Roosevelt appointee listened in on the Court discussion of the T. V. A., while the decisions on the Child Labor Amendment and on the Kansas City stockyard settlement were presumably delayed until the new justice can take part in the discussions...
Chief owner of the packing industry's grand hotel is Boston Financier Frederick Henry Prince, who is board chairman of Union Stockyard & Transit Co. (and of meat-packing Armour & Co.). Mr. Prince's bawling, squealing, baaing guests might have been unhappy indeed had not Chicago police stood by to protect their white-collar attendants (see cut). Having won an NLRB election among the handlers by 281 to 280, C. I. O.'s union called the strike to speed up contract talk with the stockyard company's Vice President William J. O'Connor and General Manager...
Best shots: the terror-stricken refugees pouring out of street ends into the haven of the Chicago River, while the whole city flames up behind them; the bawling steers in the stockyard pens, bursting through the flimsy fencing, stampeding through the streets and trampling the screen life out of Villain Brian Donlevy...
Question No. 1: What is a stockyard? Answer: A stockyard is a public market place strategically located as to source of supply of all classes of livestock...