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pa king hows

  • n  a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed
    they came from an apple packinghouse
  • n  a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products

  • In 1954 she became the first woman president of a packinghouse local; later she was appointed one of the meat cutters' five international representatives, and in 1974 .
  • His purpose: to get a firsthand look at the hundreds of tons of offal that Omaha's $700 million-a-year packinghouse industry dumps into the river each day.
  • Chicago packinghouse labor lives "back of the yards" in a wide, dismal area of ramshackle homes and crumby tenements.

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