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The affected Smithfield plants include its Tar Heel, N.C. facility — the world's largest pork-packing plant by volume — and one in Clinton, N.C. The company didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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His forecast for Smithfield's April quarter is a loss of 31 cents per share, reflecting "a miserable environment for fresh pork-packing margins and hog production."
Pork, Unjustly Fried 2009
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The hogs were driven by farmers to the pair of new pork-packing plants in town.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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The hogs were driven by farmers to the pair of new pork-packing plants in town.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Wheat, the establishment of a terminal elevator at the Pacific Coast, of a pork-packing and beef-chilling plant by the Provincial Government, etc.
Deep Furrows Hopkins Moorhouse
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It will be recalled that one of the subjects in which the Alberta farmers were interested from the first was the possibility of persuading the Provincial Government to undertake a co-operative pork-packing plant.
Deep Furrows Hopkins Moorhouse
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Cincinnati had then become a noted pork-packing and manufacturing center.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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I am now in the pork-packing business, and make a handsome income for my wife and two children.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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Bones from the South American pampas, bones from the pork-packing houses of Cincinnati, bones from the grazing plains of Texas, come here to mingle.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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However, with the progress being made with the Provincial Government in connection with the pork-packing and beef-chilling plant and with the
Deep Furrows Hopkins Moorhouse
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