Word: horsemeat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Activity. In Los Angeles, Municipal Judge Byron J. Walters, sentencing John Amodeo to a year in jail for mixing horsemeat into ground beef, declared: "Hamburgers are an American institution...
...touching a tale as had come from across the Irish Sea in many a year. Eire offered to sell Britain some fine canned beef. The British, hungry though they were, said no. Could Eire sell them canned horsemeat instead...
...Horsemeat and Pink Water. The Berliner eats about as well as the average Parisian ate last November: enough to keep from starving, not enough to satisfy his hunger. The great difference is that the Berliner with plenty of money-and there are many of them-cannot buy the lavish black-market meals the Parisian could. A typical black meal comprises two square inches of horsemeat sausage, some potatoes and beets, two glasses of pink flavored water. Cost: five dollars...
This cable from Correspondent Will Lang at the front in Tunisia had nothing to do with horsemeat. The "pony" is a miniature edition of TIME-and Lang was reporting the safe arrival of the first shipment flown 10,000 miles over land and sea to our news-hungry fighters in North Africa...
Testified Vassili Ivanovich Vikhorov: "My father, my mother, my sister, my daughter, aunt and uncle all died of hunger. ... I ate dead horsemeat. I chewed the raw leg of a horse I found in a field. It made me ill. Sometimes I ate the bark of trees. The Nazis did not give us anything...