Pork Packer

Pork Packer
Philip D Armour

Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games. 2013.

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  • packer — pack er (p[a^]k [ e]r), n. 1. A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation or for the market; as, a pork packer. [1913 Webster] 2. A ring of packing or a special device to render gas tight and water… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • packer — noun /ˈpækɹ̩/ a) A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer or a household goods packer. When his back problems kept him from lifting furniture, his skill as a packer kept him… …   Wiktionary

  • William Davies Company — was a pork processing and packing company in Toronto, Canada. At one time, it was the largest pork packer both in Canada and the British Empire. [http://www.lostrivers.ca/points/porkpacking.htm Points of Interest Along Lost Streams: Toronto Pork… …   Wikipedia

  • Mary Marcy — Mary E. Marcy (1877 1922) Mary Edna Tobias Marcy (1877–1922) was an American socialist author, pamphleteer, poet, and magazine editor. She is best remembered for her muckraking series of magazine articles on the meat industry, Letters of a Pork… …   Wikipedia

  • Simeon Arthur Huston — (December 10, 1876 ndash; December 11, 1963) was the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia from 1925 to 1947. During his episcopate bankers foreclosed on the cathedral church of the diocese, but he led a successful effort to pay off the… …   Wikipedia

  • uncle sam —  The United States government. During the War of 1812, a New York pork packer named “Uncle Sam” Wilson shipped so many barrels of pork to troops with his first two initials on each barrel that his name came to symbolize the U.S. government itself …   American business jargon

  • Godfrey Weitzel — Infobox Military Person name=Godfrey Weitzel born= birth date|1835|11|1 died= death date and age|1884|3|19|1835|11|1 placeofburial=Spring Grove Cemetery caption=Godfrey Weitzel placeofbirth=near Pirmasens, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany… …   Wikipedia

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  • Piranha Club — Infobox Comic strip title=Piranha Club caption= Title panel for Piranha Club Sunday strips. creator=Bud Grace current= status=Running syndicate=King Features Syndicate comictype=print genre=Humor first=February 1, 1988 (as Ernie) last= Piranha… …   Wikipedia

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