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When a British battleship does its victualing for a crew of 1,000 men, it takes aboard 15 tons of frozen meat, one ton of corned beef, three tons of frozen fish and half a ton of canned fish. Last week an M. P. from a coast county had an idea: "The British fishing industry is languishing. Could not the Admiralty encourage sailors to eat more fish...
...York Times which never permits slang to appear in its columns commented thus: "Good slang is 'sock on the jaw' and poor slang is 'economic Neanderthals' both from the collection of General Hugh Johnson. The first is as near to the soil as corned beef & cabbage; the second is recherché. Ninety-nine per cent of the accredited slang inventions are recherche...
Cattlemen had asked Congress to appropriate $200,000,000 to subsidize beef raisers and dairymen who agreed to curtail production. This made Speaker Rainey snort: "It might prove more effective and far simpler than appropriating these sums for the Government to take over the packing industry and operate it by the Government's paying fixed prices ... if the packers continue to exercise their monopolistic powers to drive down prices. . . . They are interfering with the entire program and stand in open defiance of the entire recovery...
...Wyoming Democrats vote for Democrats and Republicans do likewise. For three terms (1917-35) Wyoming's beloved beef-raising Democrat John Benjamin Kendrick was elected to the U. S. Senate by such overwhelming majorities that the State seemed on the verge of choosing him in 1034 by acclamation. But two months ago Senator Kendrick died. In an amazing burst of nonpartisanship Republicans joined with Democrats to amend the State Constitution so that Wyoming's Governor, Leslie Andrew Miller, could appoint to the Senate Senator Kendrick's onetime secretary, Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney...
During the Revolution Harvard Hall was used for the storage of army rations including barrels of salt beef contributed by neighboring towns. The building was of great use to the commissary department as its kitchen was the largest in New England. The troops were quartered in Massachusetts Hall...