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...After returning to England to go to boarding school, he spent his summers rejoining his parents in such places as Zagreb and Moscow. As an R.A.F. navigator during the war, he trained in Canada and England, then spent the rest of the war in the Far East, "dropping corned beef into the army in Burma and leaflets on the Japanese...
...eyed Texan who raised his total kills to six and became the fifth ace of the Korean war (he shot down seven enemy planes in the Pacific during World War II). It was the day before his 31st birthday. He and his flight-mates feted their victory with roast beef and whisky...
...Coventry's Friendship Committee. The same day he received a shocking piece of news: his daughter's fiance, Lieut. John Godfrey, a 19-year-old Coventry lad, had been killed in Korea. But that didn't stop him, or Coventry, or the dinner of scarce roast beef and Yorkshire pudding he had arranged for the Guildhall ceremony...
Actually, the showdown is at hand. In the corn belt's feed lots is a record number of cattle that must come to market sooner or later. If they move soon, prices will drop, beef will be plentiful, and Mike Di Salle will win his battle for continued controls. But if this does not happen, and the beef-control program is working as badly and as unfairly by midwinter as it is now, then even impartial observers think that meat controls must be abandoned...
With the Korean war, Flotill became the biggest packager of C rations for U.S. troops (assembling food products made by scores of other factories). Tillie has developed another big sideline, canning 300,000 to 400,000 cases a year of beef stew, corned-beef hash, chili and chili con carne for Hormel. From the original cannery, Flotill has grown to three plants-two at Stockton, a third at Modesto-covering 67 acres, using more than 25 freight cars of tin cans daily, packaging 75,000 cases of 77 different seasonal items, employing 4,000 workers at peak season...