Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repited the master, "they will go Swift past Smith and Williams, past Moat and Cassel to Blake through the Big Red Lynn...
...squad isn't up to par," Mikkola asserted last night. "Tufts is strong and 'The Cross' usually has some swift trackmen. We can't be expected to do very well...
...editorial is printed backing a drive for blood donors, don't think it is the product of furious discussions. If five hundred students are given sleeping bags and told to live in the Common when the Houses are three-quarters empty, there is no meeting. Just a swift but thorough investigation, and a thundering editorial...
...suit filed in Chicago, Clark charged that the four big packers, Armour, Cudahy, Wilson and Swift, were monopolizing the trade in federally inspected meat (the only meat that may be shipped across state borders). The Big Four, said the Attorney General, sold 58% of the cattle, 54% of the hogs, 68% of the calves, and 79% of all the sheep slaughtered under federal inspection. He accused them of getting together on buying & selling prices, and setting sales quotas to keep prices...
Strong Flavor. Packers angrily yelped that Tom Clark was after a political goat for the high meat prices; the packers have repeatedly said that those prices were caused by a shrinking supply and enormous demand. Snapped Swift's President John Holmes: "The suit is an unproved charge, with strong political flavor. I am certain that [the packers] will be completely exonerated when all the facts are presented." The packers thought that Clark would have trouble making his charges stick. Eleven times in 50 years the Government had sued the big packers; it had won only twice. A year...