Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Gustavus Franklin Swift, fifth son and namesake of the Cape Cod meat peddler who founded the House of Swift, became president in 1931, his company had just reported annual sales of $900,000,000. As Depression began to pull down meat prices, hard-working Gus Swift, whose wife bitterly complains that he never has time for play, kept on buying hogs, sheep, cattle. Though his dollar volume dwindled, he processed almost as much meat as he ever had before. ''It was our job to see that the daily cash market . . . was kept open...
...price at which meat found its market was often too low, but that a market was found meant that the money received would buy more livestock...
...wish there were a better public understanding of packers' profits and the fact that they have no appreciable effect on what the farmer receives for his live stock or the price the consumer pays for meat. The profits of all the federally inspected and uninspected slaughterers during the eight years, 1925 to 1932 inclusive, based on reports to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, have not exceeded 1? per person weekly, 4? per family and 15? per farm...
...privilege of witnessing a miniature rodeo, staged by the combined efforts of a small black and white calf and Patrolman McGinty of the Brattle Square Station. An infant bovine, apparently imbued by the desire to "enter and grow in wisdom" escaped yesterday from a truck of the New England Meat Packing Company and immediately sought sanctuary within the Yard, entering by the Johnston Gate near Harvard Hall...
...butchering of monkeys is prohibited. Monkeys possess many traits of men, including intelligence. Therefore, they should be protected. The serving of monkey meat or monkey brains is hereafter prohibited in Canton...