food-manufacturing brands such as Swanson TV dinners and Open Pit from the Campbell Soup Company. Pinnacle’s portfolio of iconic brands dates back in existence to the 1800s. The earliest brand owned by Pinnacle Foods‚ Armour Star‚ has existed since 1867 when Philip Armour founded it as Armour and Company. Armour was the first company to produce canned meat and was once Chicago’s most important business‚ helping to make the city and its stockyards the center of the American meatpacking industry. Throughout the late
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what is still experienced in the work-place today‚ but also to show how slaughterhouses operated in the 20th century. Phillip Armour‚ like many slaughterhouse owners‚ had a great fear of a unified labor force. He encouraged the hiring of diverse‚ non English-speaking workers as he viewed ethnic and racial tensions as a distraction from labor issues within management. Armour knew if the different ethnic groups were fighting each other‚ they were less likely to fight with him
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. 4. Sinclair‚ Upton. The Jungle. Cambridge‚ MA: R. Bentley‚ 1971. Print. 5. "Stockyards in Chicago Greatest in Whole World." Chicago Daily Tribune 16 Nov. 1910: A8. Chicago Tribune. Web. .] 6. Wilson‚ Mark‚ Stephen Porter‚ and Janice Reiff. "Armour & Co." Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago Historical Society. Web. 2011. . 7. "American Experience | Chicago: City of the Century." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. PBS. Web. 2011. .
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was The Emperor Jones‚ which ran on Broadway in 1920 and obliquely commented on the U.S. occupation of Haiti that was a topic of debate in that year’s presidential election. His best-known plays include Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize 1922)‚ Desire Under the Elms (1924)‚ Strange Interlude (Pulitzer Prize 1928)‚ Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)‚ and his only well-known comedy‚ Ah‚ Wilderness!‚ a wistful re-imagining of his youth as he wished it had been. In 1936 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature
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franchise that began with Armour of God (1987) and its sequel‚ Armour of God II: Operation Condor. Definitely one of JC’s best movie ever and probably his last major feature. He put everything he had and all his heart in it like it’s a parting present‚ just don’t focus too much on the story and the acting and enjoy. It brings classic Chan back! More like Mission: Impossible in the beginning and a bit too Hollywood in the end‚ but in the middle you get what you’ve paid for - Armour of God III. If you’re
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introduction The purpose of this scientific poster is to examine 2 different types of liquid body armour. Liquid body armour is protective clothing with liquid chemicals designed to strengthen it to absorb and/or deflect slashing‚ stabbing and penetrating attacks by weapons. The poster will discuss two different liquid used to strengthen kevlar (modern armour material). The first is a colloid of silicon dioxide particles suspended in polyethylene oxide. this liquid is a Shear thickening fluid which
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ARMOUR HICK NORTHERN LTD & OTHERS V ARMOUR TRUST LTD AND OTHERS 1980 (3 All ER 833) SUMMARY OF THE CASE B (Parent Company) is consisting of three shareholders ‚ which are directors of B & A ( Mr Whitehouse & Mr Hick= 3000 shares and C= 7000 shares ). B was in debt with C (Vendor Company)‚ amounting to ₤93000. For the full repayment of debt in B‚ C agreed to transfer it’s shares to directors of B & A at par value‚ provided if indebtedness to them is fully discharged. So‚ directors
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Case #1 CHAPTER 3: Armour Garment Company POINT OF VIEW The group came to a decision of choosing the management’s point of view. It would be logical for the group to decide regarding with different matter if we are going to picture out the scenario as if the group is part of the management and was tasked to solve the dilemma. The group choose to tip in the management’s shoes –it was after the group’s thorough analysis of the case situation and further background study about it and then the verdict
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center for beef salting. This changed‚ however‚ two decades later when refrigeration made Saladeros a thing of the past. Meatpacking brought two significant changes: an enormous factory system‚ and foreign ownership. The Chicago-based Swift and Armour corporation controlled the economy until it was shut down in the nineteen seventies. These economic changes brought Southern and Eastern European immigrants to Berisso‚ as well as a bastion of union and a Peronist party. James’ main source was
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The Slaughterhouse Student #: 196012 HST 340 American Social History Sean Christy March 5‚ 2009 The Slaughterhouse Catalyst “The Jungle” (Sinclair‚ 1946) peaked my interest in how meat was processed‚ stored‚ and shipped to consumers. Initially Sinclair was paid to write an expose for a socialist magazine to find incriminating information on the establishment The Durham Slaughterhouse in particular had drawn attention because its employees had went on
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