Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wire services clacked out the news within seconds of each other. The first take on each wire was marked 10:52 a.m. Typical of the swift reaction was the Detroit News, which got the flash from its own correspondent, Martin S. Hayden. An operator waiting at a special number for Hayden's call connected him with a waiting editor, who was holding an extra phone open to the pressroom. There printers were poised over two silent presses with plates headed IKE SAYS YES and IKE SAYS NO. After Hayden's call it took the News one minute...
...volume on translation for the Comparative Literature Department. He also hopes to include a trip to Greece, Italy, and Cambridge, England. "Above all I want time to read, write, and think," he said. "I need some time to digest the many new impressions I have been receiving in swift succession since moving into the Harvard community and Adams House...
...manufacturing industries. Last year the average packer's profit on every $1 of sales was 0.85?, compared to food chains' profits of 0.99?. While this was more than double the profit of 1954, it was still well under the 1.6? made by the big four packers (Swift, Armour, Wilson, Cudahy) in their best year, 1947, when farmers also cashed in. For example, Swift & Co.. biggest U.S. packer, netted $23 million last year, compared to $19 million in 1954 and $34 million...
...part of it comes from byproducts, e.g., hides and tallow. This permits the packer to live off a very low markup, or none at all, on the meat itself; e.g., in 1951, packers actually sold meat to wholesalers at less per pound than they had paid the farmers. Nevertheless. Swift still had a profit of $12 million. In short, the elimination of all the packers' profits on meat sales would have little effect on the farmer...
Kosher meat is more expensive, too. Its slaughter must be rabbinically supervised and conducted according to a set ritual pattern that stresses humaneness. The animal's throat must be cut, says Israel's Chief Rabbi Herzog, "with a single swift and uninterrupted sweep of the knife . . . The knife must be minutely examined by a specific method before killing . . . twelve times by the nail and by the flesh of the finger ... It must also be examined after the killing, and if any unevenness, roughness or the minutest indentation is found, the beast is regarded as having been improperly slaughtered...