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4 unusual facts about Swanson


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Campbell Soup spun off Swanson's TV dinner business with several other brands, including the Vlasic brand of pickles, on March 30, 1998, to a new company called Vlasic Foods International, whose name was changed to Pinnacle Foods in 2001.

That agreement expired in mid-2009 just before Pinnacle purchased Birds Eye Foods and Pinnacle discontinued the use of the Swanson name in favor of the Hungry-Man brand for its frozen dinners (the Swanson frozen breakfast line had been rebranded Aunt Jemima several years before).

The TV dinner business is currently owned by Pinnacle Foods, while the broth business is currently owned by the Campbell Soup Company.

For the majority of its run, Swanson sponsored the game show, The Name's the Same, with Robert Q. Lewis, alternating sponsorship with, first Bendix Home Appliance division of Avco; and then Johnson's Wax.


Barleyjuice

Formed originally in 1998, the group began as a side project for musicians Keith Swanson and Kyf Brewer, who met as bagpipers in the Loch Rannoch Pipes & Drums of Pineville, Pennsylvania.

Black Bread

The screenplay is based on the homonymous novel by Emili Teixidor, with elements of two other works by him, Retrat d'un assassí d'ocells and Sic transit Gloria Swanson.

CreativeLIVE

The company was created by photographer, director and artist Chase Jarvis and entrepreneur Craig Swanson in Seattle in 2010.

Dana Swanson

Swanson (under the name Insane-o-flex) also co-wrote and performed "I Like Your Booty (But I'm Not Gay)" for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters's soundtrack.

David Mark Cohen

Cohen's success as a teacher of playwrights and promoter of new plays is indicated by the large number of scripts by his students that have been accepted for development or performance by theatres and workshops throughout the United States, including John Walch, Clay Nichols, Emily Cicchini, P. Seth Bauer, Catherine Rogers, Joseph Skibell, Hank Schwemmer, C. Denby Swanson, Dan Dietz, and Lisa D'Amour.

Eric Swanson

In March 2004, SEC lawyer Genevievette Walker-Lightfoot, who was reviewing Madoff's firm, raised questions to Swanson (Walker-Lightfoot's boss's supervisor) about unusual trading at a Bernie Madoff fund; Walker-Lightfoot was told to instead concentrate on an unrelated matter.

Swanson is married to Shana Madoff, who worked at the firm of her uncle Bernard Madoff as a rules and compliance officer and attorney until it was closed when the multi-billion-dollar Madoff investment scandal was uncovered.

Eric J. Swanson is an American lawyer and the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of BATS Global Markets, the third-largest stock exchange in the United States.

Erika Lopez

Along with James Swanson, Kamala Lopez, and Jeffrey Hicken, they started a book publishing company, Monster Girl Media to go along with Monster Girl Movies, as a part of their coalition of Do-it-Yourself businesses in charge of their own development, production, merchandising, and promotion.

Go Big or Go Home

While coaching basketball, Ron Swanson shows his players what he calls the "Swanson Pyramid of Greatness", a guide to living similar to the "Pyramid of Success" used by John Wooden.

H. David Kotz

He also investigated whether the romantic relationship between Eric Swanson, the SEC Assistant Director of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, and Bernie Madoff's niece and in-house compliance attorney Shana Madoff, whom Swanson met in 2003 while he was investigating her uncle Bernie and his firm for running a Ponzi scheme, influenced the SEC's closing of the Madoff investigation.

Hilmer Swanson

In 1990, Swanson received the National Association of Broadcasters Engineering Achievement Award.

Jason Donoghue

Following another sixteen–month stint as Shane Swanson on Hollyoaks (2005–07) which ended in January 2007 after Donoghue was axed, Donoghue was cast in the role of Dominic Pearce in the upcoming science-fiction television series Outlanders, making his first appearance as one of the six original protagonists in the series in the pilot episode.

Kristy Swanson

Swanson began a relationship with her Skating with Celebrities partner Lloyd Eisler during the show's run, while Eisler was still married to his then-pregnant wife, Marcie.

Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

Notable scholars have taught at the school including Barbara Rossing, Linda E. Thomas, Antje Jackelén, Robert Fischer, Arthur Voobus, William Danker, Fredrick Danker, Joseph Sittler, Philip Hefner, Carl Braaten, Albert "Pete" Pero, Jr., Harold Vogelaar, Paul Manz, David Rhoads, Ralph Klein, Vitor Westhelle, Mark Swanson, and Edgar Krentz.

Madam Satan

Swanson was still trying to salvage her disastrous venture Queen Kelly and was advised not to appear in films not made by her own production company.

Male and Female

Toward the end of the film, a fantasy sequence about ancient Babylon shows Swanson posed as Gabriel von Max's famous painting The Lion's Bride, which involved her being photographed with an actual lion.

Marty Belafsky

Belafsky also voiced Kent Swanson in the video game series Dead Rising released in 2006.

Middle Schools of Arlington County, Virginia

Swanson is home of the Admirals, though the school's namesake, Claude A. Swanson, was Secretary of the Navy, and never an "Admiral."

Richard A. Swanson

Richard A. Swanson (born 1942) is an American organizational theorist and Distinguished Research Professor of Human Resource Development and the Sam Lindsey Chair at the University of Texas at Tyler (UTT), known for his synthesis work on the financial research related to human resource development.

Shana Madoff

In March 2004, SEC lawyer Genevievette Walker-Lightfoot was reviewing Madoff's firm and raised questions to Swanson (who was her boss's supervisor) about unusual trading at one the Madoff funds; she was told to instead concentrate on an unrelated matter.

Sleep, or Forever Hold Your Piece

The line up on this recording was John Zewizz, Arthur PW, Jonathan Briley, Eugene Difrancisco, Lawrence Van Horn, Tione, Ashley Swanson, and Dan Walker.

Stephan Swanson

Stephan Swanson came to prominence as a marine researcher when he successfully placed the satellite transmitter on the famous Great white shark Nicole, the first great white shark ever to be tracked on a 20,000 kilometer migration from South Africa to Australia and back.

Still Life with Crows

Finding it inconvenient to conduct his investigations on foot, Pendergast hires a local teenager, Corrie Swanson, to chauffeur him around in her battered AMC Gremlin.

Swanson Coupe

The Swanson Coupe Model W-15 was a high-wing, cantilever-type monoplane produced in 1931 by Swedish aircraft designer and manufacturer Swen Swanson.

Swanson River

In its lower reaches, it passes through the Swanson River Oil Field east of Nikiski before turning sharply north.

The Affairs of Anatol

Sam Wood apparently created Don't Tell Everything (1921), also starring Swanson, Reid, and Dexter, in part from outtakes left over from The Affairs of Anatol.

The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket

Gloria Swanson - Farina, Elvira's Daughter (as Gloria Mae Swanson)

Travis Swanson

Regarded as a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, Swanson was ranked as the No. 73 offensive tackle prospect in the class of 2009, which was highlighted by D. J. Fluker and Mason Walters.

Waitakere Ranges

A road, aptly named Scenic Drive, runs a good portion of the length of the ranges from Titirangi to Swanson.

Waterside hot water hay pellet furnace

The waterside hot water hay pellet furnace was invented by Gus Swanson a farmer from Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

Swanson developed a furnace with a local Pictou furnace maker, a Cape Breton company that makes pellet machines, and scientists at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

What a Widow!

What a Widow! was Swanson's second talkie and was executive produced by her then lover Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. The film received generally positive reviews and was noted for its animated title sequence created by William Dietz but was met with lukewarm box office returns.

Who Dat Girl

Ron Swanson is portrayed by Nick Offerman, who in this scene has attended a product release party for Snake Juice at The Snakehole, a club in the town of Pawnee partially owned by Tom Haverford, played by Aziz Ansari.

William H. Swanson

Swanson released a short work called Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management, thirty three sound-bite rules, including the comparatively well known "Waiter Rule".


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