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Gustavus Franklin Swift
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Noun1.Gustavus Franklin Swift - United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903)
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The more you cut, the more you sell," the meat packer Gustavus Swift used to say, and the meat by-products industry was born.
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