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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19940520
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Whatever smells assail our noses today, they can't stack up to the whiffs that hit Upton Sinclair on his landmark tour of Chicago stockyards. Overwhelmed by odor, Sinclair vented his emotion in a single, impassioned sentence:

"All day long the blazing midsummer sun beat down upon that square mile of abominations; upon tens of thousands of cattle crowded into pens whose wooden floors stank and steamed contagion; upon bare, blistering, cinder-strewn railroad tracks, and huge blocks of dingy meat factories, whose labyrinthine passages defied a breath of fresh air to penetrate them; and there ...

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