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...noisy as Mrs. Evalyn McLean's, so exclusive as Mrs. Truxtun Beale's, so smart as Mme. Bonnet's at the French embassy. Her menus are adequate but not sumptuous. At the Alben Barkley dinner last week, the 24 guests had turtle soup, filet of beef, peas, browned potatoes, aspic salad, and a rum-and-ice-cream dessert...
...strike" by western cattlemen to keep their beef from market...
...that no firm of experts is available in the area. But food experts do exist and can be persuaded to travel. Third, that machinery for examination exists in the form of House Food Committees and Visiting Committees of mothers. These people, however, are amateurs--they know nothing of slicing beef or buying coffee, they can evaluate appearance and taste, not method. Fourth, that an investigation would be a slap in the face of the Dining Halls Department. But this argument, which was the core of Heaman's case and has also been cited by Dean Bender, is demonstrably invalid. Does...
Normally, sterile bulls are sold as low-grade beef. But Rupert was an exceptional case. Wayne Fox of Des Moines heard about Rupert's problem, and offered his good offices. Fox and his wife took over, and put Rupert on a diet to" thin him down to 1,200 Ibs. They had a theory that he was so "overfitted" that his sexual hormones were lost...
Stampede. There was also trouble in the cattle market. As grain prices dropped, cattlemen unloaded their stock. Kansas City's stockyard bulged with the biggest shipment of grain-fed cattle in its history-and beef prices tumbled. Choice grades of beef which had brought a top price of $41.60 a hundredweight last summer were offered for as low as $25, only $6.25 above OPA levels. Hogs slumped $1 to $20.50, lowest since October 1946. But at the start of this week, both livestock and grains firmed...