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...real victory dinner of roast beef, carrots and plenty of good red wine that night while rifle and machine gun fire was still crackling up and down the dark streets outside," Lang cabled, "and then we three correspondents slept in the Majestic-the only Allied garrison in Tunis...
...confused with blubber (whale's fat) or fish (the whale is a warm-blooded mammal), whale tenderloin looks and tastes a good deal like beef. Usually used for animal food, for human consumption it can be corned and canned or broiled as fresh steaks. A full whale steak is 15 feet long, weighs five to seven tons; a single whale has as much meat as 125 steers...
...official rate of the peso used for "products not regularly exported" (e.g., novelties, furniture, etc.) was raised from 23.7? to 25.2? (the rate for "regular" exports like wheat and beef remains at 29.8?). This brought the "non-regular" peso into line with the booming "free" peso (the unregulated exchange now used for capital movements not connected with exports and imports...
...burden of offense in Tunisia was hoisted last week on to the shoulders of the British First Army. The Eighth Army, exhausted after two weeks of victory and of eating nothing but glory, cold bully beef, biscuits and tea, rested along 30 miles of a front 150 miles long. The First Army and its attached troops held the rest, and did all of last week's preparatory fighting...
...Common Man. "America's No. 1 Curmudgeon, or Sour Puss" was born (1874) in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children. "I was raised to dust and sweep and wash dishes and knead dough and baste the beef and turn (and burn) the toast and flip flapjacks. ... I was pinch-hit nursemaid, wood chopper, fire builder and tender, chicken executioner-more useful than ornamental...