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After a roast beef dinner, each captain spoke to the gathering following an introduction by his coach. Most of the speeches followed the same "I've got the world's greatest coach" line, causing one captain to remark, "This should have been called coaches' night...
Such labor leaders as C.I.O. Research Director Stanley H. Ruttenberg plumped for income-tax cuts to beef up consumer buying. "Tax policies designed to grant an increasing degree of special privilege to business investment will not and cannot produce long-run economic growth and stability," said Ruttenberg. "What is required is not additional tax privileges for business and wealthy investors, but direct tax cuts for the great mass of taxpayers . . . This would result in expanding consumer markets that will make it profitable for business to invest in new and more efficient plant structures and machines . . . [and] absorb the increasing available...
...glass pavilions move every fish, vegetable and piece of meat that Paris consumes. "The belly of Paris," Emile Zola called it. Under the glaring light of bare electric bulbs, husky men in blue overalls and leather aprons unload crates of cabbages from Burgundy, baskets of fish from Brittany, beef carcasses from Normandy...
...some cases, especially where the trouble was a simpler disturbance in the balance of ordinary colon bacilli, Dr. Weiss found that acidophilus milk did the trick. More often, however, he had to use an ion-exchange resin with silicates (Resion) and eventually had to beef this up with phthalysulfacetamide, an intestinal antiseptic, and-ironically-another antibiotic, Polymixin...
...Central Kitchen handles 16,000 pounds of meat a week, which includes items like 3700 pounds of boneless beef tops, 2200 pounds of mutton legs, 1900 pounds of fowl, 17000 pounds of chicken fryers, and 350 pounds of sausage meat...