Word: packer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Until someone makes a film highlighting offensive linemen reminiscent of the footgage showing Green Bay Packer quarterback Bart Starr plunging over Jerry Kramer in the 1967 NFL championship, the men in the trenches will probably lack the widespread recognition they earn. But the Crimson tight ends, who have carried a more visible load this fall, have gained the admiration of Harvard partisans...
...East Cambridge, the industry was more diverse, but the John P. Squire, meat-packer, was clearly dominant. The company eventually encompassed 22 acres, on which 2500 hogs a day were slaughtered. The glass industry, which once dominated the area, moved out in the 1800s, but there were plenty of factories left--Revere Sugar, Goepper Brothers, which produced barrels, the American Net and Twine Co., Dow fertilizer, even Lockhart & Co., manufacturers of caskets. By 1846, East Cambridge had 4000 people, "a healthy balance of commerce, industry and professionalism, no one activity dominating the others," according to one historian...