Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ments rotted in the docks. At San Fran cisco $40,000,000 worth of cargo stood unmoved in the dockyards while in the bay 61 loaded freighters lay idle and deserted. Ship owners were losing more than $100,000 a day. At Portland the docks creaked with unloaded steel, meat, fruit and vegetables. A Japanese silk ship waited ten days to unload its cargo, finally sailed back home. Along San Francisco's Embarcadero strikers picketed all day, all night, 1,000 at a time. To break the strike snipping companies hired college boys, paid them...
...more than pleased to be able to be back at Harvard for the 25th reunion of my class," he continued. "The reception which has been accorded me has been extremely cordial and I am grateful for all the favors extended to me. It has been the meat enjoyable and successful vacation that I have had in years...
...Michigan and Texas. In 1916 he became an economist to the Federal Trade Commission, helped handle its early but unsuccessful campaigns against alleged monopolistic practices in the gasoline and newsprint trades. During the War he helped the Government fix prices. After a short interlude directing publicity against the big meat packers in behalf of the Southern Wholesale Grocers' Association, he returned to Washington to establish the Department of Agriculture's Cost of Marketing division, which made extensive studies on the distribution of milk and potatoes. In 1920 he headed the Florida Hoover-for-President Club, ruefully admits that...
...assignment Dartmouth has turned in a dangerous record lately. Outside the League they've taken colleges like Swarthmore and Wesleyan, while in League games they lost a pair to Columbia by one run each in addition to their five wins. That means that if they were easy meat for Yale in a 9-3 defeat earlier in the year, they have reformed completely...
...through a port in the stern and haul the carcass on deck. There flensers with knives as big as hoes strip the blubber, which produces the highest grade of oil. Power saws reduce the skeleton to handy chunks which can be tossed into steam digesters. In some ships the meat is canned (largely for Japanese consumption) and what scraps remain are ground or burned for fertilizer. For "whalebone," which is not bone but gargantuan mouth bristles, there is now almost no market...