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...South American business conducted by Armour & Co. continues in unusually large volume. About 25% of the South American output of packing products is shipped by the local subsidiaries of the big Chicago firm, and consists almost entirely of beef destined for England and the continent. Armour & Co. consequently is now an international business, and its prosperity depends upon foreign as well as purely U. S. economic conditions...
...radio station pointing out that Mr. Walker as a State Senator and a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture had appeared privately as attorney for the -% meat packers, who had in their possession time and again rotten hog livers and pigs' heads, frozen spotted eggs, putrid spareribs and beef brains, and pork snouts in an advanced stage of putrefaction...
Owing to the severity of depression encountered by the cattlemen, herds in the southwest have been considerably reduced. Meanwhile pork prices have soared, and under satisfactory wage conditions the domestic demand for beef has increased. As a result, heavy steers are bringing better prices in Chicago today. On the other hand, the cost of cattle feed-always a most important factor in the industry- has held fairly stable. Some cattlemen expect to see on their ledgers this year the first profits since...
Cattle, however, depend for their value directly on their beef; their hides are a byproduct. Tanners thus lack the control over supplies of their raw material...
...snow-burned flyers, nourished on pemmican (food made from beef and dried fruits), chocolate, biscuits, tea, sugar, bacon, butter and the cheaper brands of cigarets, sallied out of Flagler Fjord, established a second base on Ellesmere Island, 120 miles northwest of Etah as the biplane flies...