Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side industry popular among U. S. countryfolk is raising rabbits to sell for fur and meat. But last week into the bankruptcy court of East St. Louis, Ill., marched Mrs. Anna R. Brown of Chester, Ill., a rabbit-raiser of wide renown. She had debts of $39,570. Her only assets were 300 rabbits. Like other big rabbit-raisers, Mrs. Brown had done business in this fashion: Starting with a few rabbits of pedigreed stock, she would farm out pairs of their offspring to smaller raisers, promising to buy the grandchildren back at $2 a head.* Then she would market...
Samuel Wilson came to Troy from New Hampshire. Brickmaker, distiller, farmer, merchant, meat packer, he waxed rich. Everybody called him Uncle Sam Wilson. When the War of 1812 began one Elbert Anderson got a contract to provision U. S. troops. Anderson arranged with Wilson to secure and pack pork and beef for the army. On the casks and barrels Wilson had written E. A.U. S., meaning from Contractor Anderson to the United States. Visitors saw the containers thus labelled on a wharf for shipment to Newburgh and Greenbush, asked the watchman what the initials stood for. He declared...
...Federal Government came into being during the War of 1812. By 1813 the expression had reached the Press where U. S. Customs officers were referred to as "Uncle Sam's Men." That year the Troy Post, apparently ignorant of Uncle Sam Wilson's initialed meat barrels, declared: "This cant name has got almost as current as 'John Bull.' The letters U. S. on Government wagons are supposed to have given rise to it." The Gazette of the U. S. (Philadelphia) in 1816 explained that a countryman, meeting a regiment of light dragoons, asked what...
...Better Homes Week," said President Hoover last week. "Everything that can be done to make home life pleasanter is a distinct contribution . . . to the highest spiritual values of life." As their contribution to Better Homes Week the President & Mrs. Hoover with six friends ate a meal (split pea soup, meat & rice loaf; baked potatoes, cabbage, carrot salad, lemon bread pudding) that cost 23.6¢ a plate, cooked and served by Girl Scouts at their Little House in Washington...
...Although he did not go so far, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune (which operates its own broadcasting station) did state that Radio's news competition is negligible; that the real battle lies in the field of advertising. Well aware that the latter subject would be the meat of the A. N. P. A. meeting, the Associated Press contented itself with a resolution of "sympathy" toward the publishers' anticipated action...