Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Past the meat of the book come college customs--"Each year the junior class gives a luncheon for the senior class, in honor of their graduation from Radcliffe; at the luncheon, each engaged senior is given a ring of pink rosebuds," and college informatio--"By the first week of college, every new student should have met her 'senior sister', to whom she may go for information and advice during her first year...
Strong Facts. Federally inspected meat accounts for about 75% of the meat the U.S. housewife buys. But the meat business is difficult to control. Each day the packers through retail stores deal with millions of customers. In the stockyards, even though they are the most powerful bidders, they still deal with thousands of livestock growers whose readiness to market their animals is the most important factor in determining meat prices from day to day. Throughout the U.S. the Big Four get lively local competition from some 3,000 smaller packers. The independents during last spring's meat workers...
Despite booming meat sales, the packers' profits have been less than those of other food processors. After paying its first common dividend in ten years in the first quarter of the year, Armour decided not to pay a dividend this summer. Said Armour's Board Chairman George A. Eastwood: "Our earnings on meat last year were at the rate of about one-fifth of a cent a pound. Obviously a profit of one-fifth cent cannot be responsible for the increase which has taken place in meat prices since before the war." Nevertheless, the suit helped drive packing...
Since then, Valpey's lads have slogged through six weeks of spring training and have been belting the daylights out of each other on Soldiers Field since September 7. The answer is still "yes." The 1948 schedule is all meat. As of today, the Varsity is rated as underdog against Columbia, Army, Princeton and Dartmouth. Yale, Holy Cross, Brown and Cornell are regarded as tossups...
Reynolds listed two principal reasons for the rise: the constant increase in food costs--especially meat and dairy products--and a higher wage scale for employees than previously...