![]() ![]() Tyson might have never left his childhood home - a distressed family farm - if it weren’t for the fact that the down-turn nearly bankrupted his parents. ![]() ![]() Funnily enough, it had been the devastating Great Depression that marked the beginning of Tyson’s founding of the largest meat-producing company in the world - an enterprise that would not only get chicken into pots, but make it cheap enough that most Americans could buy it by the bucket. Where Hoover failed to deliver, though, John Tyson would ultimately succeed, as agri-business reporter Christopher Leonard so vividly illustrates in his wonderful book, The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business. Something about the stock market crash, eight months after his inauguration, putting an end to his plans for the country’s prosperity. That’s what Herbert Hoover promised on the 1928 election trail but, as is so often the case, these campaign promises never came to be. ![]()
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