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96 relations: Adhesive, Agriculture, Albany, New York, American Car and Foundry Company, American Civil War, Animal, Animal slaughter, Arch Wilkinson Shaw, Armour and Company, Arthur Van Vlissingen, Assembly line, Boston, Boston and Albany Railroad, Boxcar, Brighton, Buffalo, New York, Butcher, Canada, Cape Cod, Carcass, Cattle, Center of mass, Chicago, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Detroit, Distribution (marketing), Domestic pig, Eastham, Massachusetts, Erie Railroad, Federal government of the United States, Federal Meat Inspection Act, Fertilizer, Food processing, GATX, Golden West Books, Goods wagon, Grand Trunk Railway, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Helen Swift Neilson, Henry Ford, Insulin, JBS USA, Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas State University, Lake Forest, Illinois, Livestock, Margarine, Mass production, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ..., Mausoleum, Meat packing industry, Medication, Methodist Episcopal Church, Michigan, Midwestern United States, New England, New York Central Railroad, New York City, North Eastham, Massachusetts, Northern Railroad (New York), Northwestern University, Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad, Organ (anatomy), PDF, Peninsular Car Company, Pennsylvania Railroad, Pepsin, Pork, Pork and beans, Rail transport, Railhead, Railroad car, Refrigerator car, Rutland Railroad, Sagamore, Massachusetts, San Marino, California, Sandwich, Massachusetts, Sheep, Slaughterhouse, Soap, Specialization (functional), Stock car (rail), Swift Refrigerator Line, The Jungle, The New York Times, Ton, Transport, Union Stock Yards, United Kingdom, United States, United States dollar, University of Chicago, Upton Sinclair, Vertical integration, YMCA. Expand index (46 more) »
Adhesive
An adhesive, also known as glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, is any substance applied to one surface, or both surfaces, of two separate items that binds them together and resists their separation.
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Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Albany, New York
Albany is the capital of the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Albany County.
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American Car and Foundry Company
American Car and Foundry (often abbreviated as ACF) is an American manufacturer of railroad rolling stock.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Animal slaughter
Animal slaughter is the killing of animals, usually referring to killing domestic livestock.
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Arch Wilkinson Shaw
Arch Wilkinson Shaw (August 4, 1876 – March 9, 1962) was an American entrepreneur, publisher, editor and management theorist who applied the ideas of scientific management in the areas of offices and the tertiary sector.
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Armour and Company
Armour & Company was an American company that used to be one of the five leading firms in the meat packing industry.
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Arthur Van Vlissingen
Arthur Van Vlissingen Jr. (November 22, 1894 - October 20, 1986) was an American writer and bureau chief for Business Week and Newsweek, noted as editor of the Factory and Industrial Management journal.
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Assembly line
An assembly line is a manufacturing process (often called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Boston and Albany Railroad
The Boston and Albany Railroad was a railroad connecting Boston, Massachusetts to Albany, New York, later becoming part of the New York Central Railroad system, Conrail, and CSX Transportation.
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Boxcar
A boxcar is a North American railroad car that is enclosed and generally used to carry freight.
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Brighton
Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.
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Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.
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Butcher
A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a geographic cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States.
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Carcass
Carcass or Carcase may refer to.
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Cattle
Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.
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Center of mass
In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space is the unique point where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero, or the point where if a force is applied it moves in the direction of the force without rotating.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (also known as the DL&W or Lackawanna Railroad) was a U.S. Class 1 railroad that connected Buffalo, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey, a distance of about.
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Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.
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Distribution (marketing)
Distribution (or place) is one of the four elements of the marketing mix.
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Domestic pig
The domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus or only Sus domesticus), often called swine, hog, or simply pig when there is no need to distinguish it from other pigs, is a large, even-toed ungulate.
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Eastham, Massachusetts
Eastham is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, Barnstable County being coextensive with Cape Cod.
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Erie Railroad
The Erie Railroad was a railroad that operated in the northeastern United States, originally connecting New York City — more specifically Jersey City, New Jersey, where Erie's former terminal, long demolished, used to stand — with Lake Erie.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.
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Federal Meat Inspection Act
The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) is an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
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Fertilizer
A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English; see spelling differences) is any material of natural or synthetic origin (other than liming materials) that is applied to soils or to plant tissues to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to the growth of plants.
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Food processing
Food processing is the transformation of cooked ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food, or of food into other forms.
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GATX
GATX Corporation is an equipment finance company based in Chicago, Illinois.
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Golden West Books
Golden West Books is a privately owned American publishing company specializing in American Railroads.
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Goods wagon
Goods wagons or freight wagons (North America: goods cars or freight cars) are unpowered railway vehicles that are used for the transportation of cargo.
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Grand Trunk Railway
The Grand Trunk Railway was a railway system that operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and in the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
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Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (les Grands-Lacs), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River.
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Great Plains
The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.
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Helen Swift Neilson
Helen Swift Neilson (1869 – 1945) was an American writer and art collector.
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
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Insulin
Insulin (from Latin insula, island) is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets; it is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body.
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JBS USA
JBS USA Holdings, Inc. is an American food processing company and a wholly owned subsidiary of JBS S.A. (B3:JBSS3), a Brazilian company that is the world's largest processor of fresh beef and pork, with more than US$49 billion in annual sales as of 2017.
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Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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Kansas State University
Kansas State University (KSU), commonly shortened to Kansas State or K-State, is a public research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States.
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Lake Forest, Illinois
Lake Forest is a city located in Lake County, Illinois, United States.
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Livestock
Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
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Margarine
Margarine is an imitation butter spread used for flavoring, baking, and cooking.
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Mass production
Mass production, also known as flow production or continuous production, is the production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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Mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people.
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Meat packing industry
The meat packing industry handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.
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Medication
A medication (also referred to as medicine, pharmaceutical drug, or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.
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Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").
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New England
New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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New York Central Railroad
The New York Central Railroad was a railroad operating in the Northeastern United States.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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North Eastham, Massachusetts
North Eastham is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Eastham in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Northern Railroad (New York)
The Northern Railroad was incorporated on May 14, 1845.
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Northwestern University
Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, United States, with other campuses located in Chicago and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs and facilities in Miami, Florida, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California.
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Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad
The Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad was founded in 1849 as the Northern Railroad running from Ogdensburg to Rouses Point, New York.
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Organ (anatomy)
Organs are collections of tissues with similar functions.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Peninsular Car Company
The Peninsular Car Company was a railroad rolling stock manufacturer, founded by Charles L. Freer and Frank J. Hecker in 1885.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad (or Pennsylvania Railroad Company and also known as the "Pennsy") was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Pepsin
Pepsin is an endopeptidase that breaks down proteins into smaller peptides (that is, a protease).
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Pork
Pork is the culinary name for meat from a domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).
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Pork and beans
Pork and beans is a culinary dish that uses beans and pork as its main ingredients.
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Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
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Railhead
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Railroad car
A railroad car or railcar (American and Canadian English), railway wagon or railway carriage (British English and UIC), also called a train car or train wagon, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport system (a railroad/railway).
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Refrigerator car
A refrigerator car (or "reefer") is a refrigerated boxcar (U.S.), a piece of railroad rolling stock designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures.
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Rutland Railroad
The Rutland Railroad was a railroad in the northeastern United States, located primarily in the state of Vermont but extending into the state of New York at both its northernmost and southernmost ends.
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Sagamore, Massachusetts
Sagamore is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Bourne in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
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San Marino, California
San Marino is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, incorporated on April 12, 1913 The city is located in the San Rafael Hills.
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Sandwich, Massachusetts
Sandwich is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Sheep
Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
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Slaughterhouse
A slaughterhouse or abattoir is a facility where animals are slaughtered for consumption as food.
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Soap
Soap is the term for a salt of a fatty acid or for a variety of cleansing and lubricating products produced from such a substance.
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Specialization (functional)
Specialization (or specialisation) is the separation of tasks within a system.
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Stock car (rail)
In railroad terminology, a stock car, cattle car or cattle wagon (British English) is a type of rolling stock used for carrying livestock (not carcasses) to market.
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Swift Refrigerator Line
The Swift Refrigerator Line (SRL, also known as the Swift Refrigerator Transportation Company) was a private refrigerator car line established around 1875 by Chicago meat packer Gustavus Swift, the founder of Swift and Company.
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The Jungle
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968).
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Ton
The ton is a unit of measure.
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Transport
Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another.
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Union Stock Yards
The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.
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Vertical integration
In microeconomics and management, vertical integration is an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company.
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YMCA
The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), often simply called the Y, is a worldwide organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 58 million beneficiaries from 125 national associations.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Franklin_Swift
