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	The cases of Daniel McCallum and Gustavus Swift
		Swift was a wholesale butcher in New England who moved west to Chicago in the 1870s.
		Swift was determined to bring order and efficiency to the process by controlling each step from ranch to retail store.
		Swift had a marketing division, a meat-packing division, a purchasing or stockyards division, a shipping division, a sales division, and an advertising division.
	www.willamette.edu /~fthompso/MgmtCon/McCallum.htm (991 words)

	Illinois Business Hall of Fame, IBHF
		Gustavus Franklin Swift was born on June 24, 1839, in Sagamore, Massachusetts.
		Swift also recognized that if he slaughtered cattle in Chicago and then shipped them; he would save on freight and feeding charges.
		Swift walked right into the meeting and stated, "You gentlemen think you might be better off by bringing financial pressure to bear on us.
	www.ibhf.org /laureates/gfswift.htm (865 words)

	Television Point \| Dictionary \| Meaning of swift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		swift; akin to sw[=a]pan to sweep, swipu a whip; cf.
		In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds.
		Note: The common European swift ({Cypselus, or Micropus, apus}) nests in church steeples and under the tiles of roofs, and is noted for its rapid flight and shrill screams.
	www.televisionpoint.com /dictionary/default.asp?define=swift (377 words)

	LibertyArcade.org - Historical Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gustavus Swift was a real person, and in fact succeeded in selling his meat in cities throughout the East Coast.
		Swift's (or Chase's) design was to separate the ice from the meat, but use vents to move the air over the ice, thereby cooling it, and through the train car.
		Swift may have had to get past some legislative hurdles, but he was able to sell his refrigerated meat throughout the East Coast within a short time, and undoubtedly a number of local butchers were driven out of business because of it.
	www.libertyarcade.org /cyoa.php/109.html (475 words)

	Gustavus Franklin Swift Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Gustavus Swift (1839-1903) headed a large American corporation that revolutionized the meatpacking industry by using refrigerated railroad cars, strict cost controls at his plants, and "vertical integration." His practices helped overcome consumer mistrust of processed meat and inspired the vast, mechanized meatpacking businesses depicted in Upton Sinclair's infamous 1906 novel The Jungle.
		Gustavus Swift, the company's founder, battled public distrust for meat processed hundreds of miles away and found many profitable uses for byproducts of the slaughterhouse.
		Swift was known as a tough taskmaster who regularly inspected plants and tyrannized employees when he found evidence of waste--even pencil stubs in office wastebaskets.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-gustavus-franklin-swift (1686 words)

	Gustavus F. Swift biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gustavus Franklin Swift (June 24, 1839 in Massachusetts - March 29, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois) was a U.S. meat businessman.
		Swift opened his first butcher shop in Eastham, Massachusetts when he was twenty years old, with $20 in capital.
		By the mid 1980s, Swift faced a lot of competition from rivals such as Philip Armour and began to experiment with the beef by-product market.
	www.biography.ms /Gustavus_F._Swift.html (176 words)

	School of Communication at Northwestern University :: School of Communication :: Annie May Swift Hall
		Annie May Swift Hall houses the Departments of Performance Studies and Radio/Television/Film and is the original home of the School.
		Gustavus F. Swift, a Chicago businessman, donated the funds in 1895 necessary to build a permanent home for the School, providing a critical nerve center for operations, academics, and administration.
		In addition to the departmental offices, a film library and auditorium with projection equipment are located in Annie May Swift Hall along with the student-run radio station, WNUR 89.3 FM.
	www.communication.northwestern.edu /about/facilities/ams (130 words)

	► when was gustavus swift born
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		Nathaniel Swift was born 29 Jun 1837 in.
		Gustavus Franklin Swift, 1839-1903, was born in Sagamore, Massachusetts...
	www.faq-site.com /faqs/234/when-was-gustavus-swift-born.html (315 words)

	American Experience \| Chicago: City of the Century \| Transcript
		Ed Swift Jr., Swift Descendant: The story my father likes to tell is that when Gustavus Swift was about 16 years old, he borrowed 20 dollars from his father, to buy a heifer.
		But the way they'd had beef up until this time was by going down to their local butcher, who had slaughtered that cow the night before, and so the meat was still just within 24 hours of having been a living, pulsing animal.
		Swift: Gustavus Swift would walk out to Bubbly Creek, which was this terrible little sewer that ran out of one of his plants, with his top hat, his dark suit, he'd have his pants tucked into his Wellington boots, and he would wade into Bubbly Creek to check what was coming out of the sewer.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/chicago/filmmore/pt_2.html (9100 words)

	A Bio. of America: Industrial Supremacy - Transcript
		Swift, the tightlipped son of a Massachusetts farmer, started life as a butcher's apprentice, and then shifted to cattle dealing, moving west with the geographically expanding business until he arrived in Chicago at the age of 36.
		Swift made a lot of money shipping cattle east, but he had the foresight to see that the business he was prospering in was about to change.
		And Swift, who had what his son called "an eye for waste", objected to paying freight on the inedible parts of the animals, which amounted to 60% of the weight.
	www.learner.org /biographyofamerica/prog14/transcript/page03.html (962 words)

	Gustavus Franklin Swift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swift, Louis Franklin and Arthur Van Vlissingen (1927) The Yankee of the Yards: The Biography of Gustavus Franklin Swift.
		Gustavus Swift in the 1880 Census enumerated on line 30 of the page for Lake County, Illinois.
		Gustavus Swift in the 1900 Census enumerated on line 1 of the page for Hyde Park, Cook County, Illinois.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gustavus_Franklin_Swift (2530 words)

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	Swift Refrigerator Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Swift hoped to develop an alternative to transporting live cattle across the Midwest.
		In 1878, Swift hired engineer Andrew Chase to design a ventilated car that was well-insulated, and positioned the ice in a compartment at the top of the car, allowing the chilled air to flow naturally downward.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swift_Refrigerator_Line (565 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Swift and Company, headquartered in Fort Worth, was a major branch of the nation's leading nineteenth-century meat-packing firm and one of the nation's Big Four meat-packers of the early 1900s.
		Swift's technological innovation enabled his company to deliver fresh meat from meat-packing centers in the Midwest to large urban markets in the Northeast.
		Swift and Company were interested in relocating meat-packing operations closer to places where cattle were raised and entered into negotiations with Simpson, the city of Fort Worth, and Armour in the late 1890s.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/dis2.html (1188 words)

	Swift Coat of Arms
		The ancient Anglo-Saxon culture once found in Britain is the soil from which the many generations of the Swift family have grown.
		The name Swift was given to a member of the family who was a person who because of his physical abilities was referred to as swifte, which was an Old English word used to denote one who was quick and had a lot of speed.
		Swift who arrived in Virginia in 1623; Anne Swift came to the Barbados in 1673; James Swift arrived in Virginia in 1610; Thomas and William Swift settled in New England in 1640.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/swift-coat-arms.htm (1432 words)

	eoa : East St. Louis, Illinois: "Hog Capital of the Nation"
		Philip Armour and his colleague Gustavus Swift were true founders of some of the great modern business practices that remain in use today around the globe.
		Armour, Swift, Hunter, Morris, and others had packinghouses in National City, but, while Armour began with the processing of hogs, Swift found a way to ship refrigerated beef all the way to the major east coast cities.
		Swift and Armour used their refrigerated rail cars to ship their meat around the country, and they used their innovative production methods to dominate the meat-packing industry.
	www.eco-absence.org /esl/petraitis.htm (3741 words)

	Swift - new and used books
		SWIFT, GUSTAVUS] SWIFT, Louis F./Vlissingen - YANKEE OF THE YARDS...GUSTAVUS SWIFT
		Picador, London 398pp slight edge wear Tom Crick, a history teacher in the Fenlands, is driven by a marital crisis and the provocation of one of his pupils, to forsake his teaching and relate the story of his family who have lived in the Fens since the 18th century.
		This debut novel from Amanda Swift, both warm and sharp, revels in the comic antics of its hapless heroes as they attempt to stave off the perils of puberty - with unexpected results.
	www.isbn.pl /A-Swift (883 words)

	TIME.com: Happy Packers -- Jan. 20, 1936 -- Page 1
		Swift, Cabell, Cudahy and Wilson this refund would amount to some $20,000,000.
		Yet, except for Swift, packers had trouble in much improving 1934 profits, for the price of livestock increased even more than the price of meat.
		Profit was up more than $6,000,000, but the thrifty Swifts appropriated a $6,000,000 reserve for possible inventory losses in the future.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,755709,00.html (785 words)

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		The Food Bank is pleased to have Swift and Co. as one of its newest donors.
		Swift and Co. is a meat processing and distribution company which is headquartered in Greeley, Colorado.
		Gustavus Swift founded the company 150 years ago and revolutionized the industry with his innovative techniques, including the introduction of refrigerated rail cars.
	www.firstfoodbank.org /featured_donor.html (192 words)

	The Organizational Age
		But the principle of delegating command to officers on the spot, who are highly trained in a common military theory and in the command of standardized military units, has remained the only workable solution to the problem that overwhelmed Napoleon.
		Soon Swift built additional packing plants in St. Louis, Omaha, St. Joseph, St. Paul, and Fort Worth.
		What Moltke learned was needed for modern war and what Gustavus Swift had discovered about business, modern government also put into practice a carefully designed organizational system operated by specially selected and trained people.
	www.analytictech.com /mb021/orgage.htm (2626 words)

	Swifts UMC History
		Nathaniel Swift presented the early society with the deed to a plot of land on the corner of Old Plymouth and Scusset Beach Road —diagonally across from what is now the Activity Center.
		Just as Nathaniel Swift had donated the land for the “ White Church ”, his grandson, Gustavus Swift, founder of the meat packing house in Chicago, donated $10,000 toward the $25,000 needed to complete construction of the new church.
		But the Swift Memorial Church remains—a handsome monument to the man whose dream it had been and to the early Sagamore residents who built it.
	www.swiftumc.org /history.htm (1048 words)

	illinoisreview
		Gustavus Franklin Swift was one of several pioneers in wholesale food distribution who took advantage of Chicago's railroad center and strategic location to revolutionize their various industries in the latter part of the 19th Century.
		Swift was born on June 24, 1839 on Cape Cod near a town that was then called West Sandwich and is now called Sagamore, Massachusetts.
		Swift was the expert cattle buyer for the partnership and on his recommendation the company moved to Chicago in 1875 to take advantage of access to the Union Stock Yards.
	illinoisreview.typepad.com (5054 words)

	J.G. Neil & Co. :: Homepage
		For over 150 years, Swift and Company® has been providing quality beef and pork products under superior brand names to consumers nationwide.
		Gustavus Swift when he purchased a calf for $20.00 and sold the meat to his neighbors.
		Today, Swift and Company is an industry leader in fresh ideas, products and technology.
	www.jgneil.com /product_profiles.cfm?id=2049 (138 words)

	And Now for Some Good Economic News! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In fact, Gustavus Swift was more instrumental and the product was meat.
		Swift imaginatively combined the assembly- line dismembering of hogs with distribution of the finished product via refrigerated railroad cars.
		So sharply did Swift cut costs and so vastly did he increase production that he was able to market meat not only throughout the U.S. but in Europe and the Orient as well.
	www.libertyhaven.com /politicsandcurrentevents/energy/nowsome.shtml (969 words)

	Sur Asia Sdn Bhd
		SWIFT ARMOUR S.A is a leader in the preparation of meat products and exports to 70 countries, proudly upholding the principle of processing without ever transforming the nature of its raw material.
		The name SWIFT ARMOUR S.A ARGENTINA goes back to Gustavus Swift and Philip Armour, who in 1860, in Chicago, were the pioneers of the meat chilling industry.
		Of the 11,000 tons of Frozen Cooked Meat that Argentina exports to the United States, 75% is exported by Swift.
	www.surasia.com /prod_rtl_swift.html (188 words)

	LOUIS F. SWIFT - DOCUMENT SIGNED 06/25/1912 CO-SIGNED BY:S. H. TAYLOR
		Swift, the eldest son of meatpacking pioneer Gustavus Swift, helped his father incorporate Swift and Co. in Chicago in 1885.
		Louis, who served as the firm's Treasurer (1885-1895), Vice President (1895), President (1903-1931) and Chairman of the Board, is credited with developing various uses for the company's byproducts and promoting new dairy and poultry lines.
		Horizontal fold touches the upper loops of the "L", "F", "S" and "t" of Swift's signature and the "l" in Taylor.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/12_2003/business/LOUIS_F_SWIFT.htm (184 words)

	GUSTAVUS FRANKLIN SWIFT - AUTOGRAPH PASS SIGNED 03/11/1889
		GUSTAVUS F. The innovative meat packer allows a journalist to tour his glue factory.
		Five years later, Swift incorporated Swift and Company in Chicago.
		Swift kept his facilities scrupulously clean long before the era of rigid health standards.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2001/business/GUSTAVUS_FRANKLIN_SWIFT.htm (257 words)

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