Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doctor took a pair of forceps in his hand. That hand must not tremble. It must pull the needle straight out in one swift motion. The forceps must not grope for its grip on the needle end. The screech of slipping steel would sound the tiny patient's death. He must not jiggle the needle, else its embedded tip would tear the thin cells of the brain and kill the patient. With micrometer precision he gripped with the forceps the needle end. With ramrod straightness he pulled. The needle came out. Except for a little clot of blood...
Five brothers head and control Swift & Co., Chicago packers. These five are Louis Franklin, oldest and president of the company; Charles Henry, Edward Foster and Harold Higgins, all vice presidents; and George Hastings, who holds no official position but keeps up his interests...
...some years, in corollary to the trust-busting proclivities of President Roosevelt, the pseudo-monopolistic business of Swift & Co., of the Armour Co., and of the other large packers, lay under cloud in the public mind. True, they had corralled livestock, slaughtering and marketing control into few hands, had almost ruled the meat business of this country. Then came the War, during which the quintessence of centralized control over every commodity was the sine qua non of victory, and the U. S. Army Quartermaster Corps found its rationing problems simplified. General Knisgern, Zone Supply Officer, stationed at Chicago, was especially...
...February after the armistice, prudent General Knisgern started canceling his war contracts; told Swift & Co., one of his main supply agents, to cease preparing Army bacon. But they had about five million pounds of pig bellies in smoke, could not easily dispose of them to the civilian trade. The selling price would have been considerably below the Government contract rate, at which Swift & Co. had keyed their packing operations. The General realized Swift's fairness and willing co-operation throughout the War stress, yet had to refer money adjustment to a Court of Claims; told the company to sell...
...Swift & Co. filed routine suit against the Government in the Court of Claims. There Government agents astounded them by charging fraudulent conduct. Yet the Court decided in favor of the packers. Government appeal went to the U. S. Supreme Court, and over that Court's decision the five brothers of Swift & Co. were happy last week, for the final decision awarded them not only the more than million dollars differential on War bacon sales in the U. S., but also $212,216 more for a potential loss on bacon sold in France...