Sentence examples for packinghouse from inspiring English sources

Most nitrogen fertilizers are obtained from synthetic ammonia; this chemical compound (NH3) is used either as a gas or in a water solution, or it is converted into salts such as ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate, and ammonium phosphate, but packinghouse wastes, treated garbage, sewage, and manure are also common sources of it.

Until it was destroyed by fire in 1901, the packinghouse was the city's largest industry.

The bidding held at five dollars a pound; Paco was bound for the packinghouse.

(The typical MRI unit is not well suited to the orchard or the packinghouse).

If they fail to be hired anywhere, they go farther north, to Oregon and Washington, ready to pick fruit or to gut salmon in a packinghouse, willing to do anything to earn their keep.

Visit to Indian River fruit packinghouse.

Journalists published pieces in radical and muckraking magazines detailing the monopolistic and exploitive practices of Beef Trust businesses as well as the unsanitary conditions of the packinghouses and their tactics to evade even the smallest levels of government inspection.

The result was his best-known novel, The Jungle (1906), which vividly described not only the working conditions of packinghouses but also the horrific meatpacking practices that produced the food itself.

The novel first appeared serially in Appeal to Reason on February 25 , 1905 and it was published as a book by Doubleday, Page & Company a year later, after a report resulting from an independent investigation by labour commissioner Charles P. Neill and social worker James Bronson Reynolds confirmed Sinclair's depiction of the packinghouses.

Fruit and vegetable agriculture and fishing are the island's economic mainstays, supplemented by a growing tourist industry and some packinghouses.

At the centre of public outrage was the "Beef Trust"—a collaborative group made up of the five largest meatpacking companies and its base of packinghouses in Chicago's Packingtown area.