Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Argentina had 20,000,000 bu. of surplus wheat, 300,000,000 bu. of corn, 500,000,000 Ib. of beef. Brazil had over 400,000 bales of cotton, plus her chronically astronomical coffee surplus (around 1,700,000,000 lb.). Canada had 300,000,000 bu. of wheat, and 70,000,000 lb. of pork and bacon all dressed up with no place to go. Cuba was carrying about 1,000,000 tons of sugar. Uruguay was loaded with 120,000,000 lb. of beef...
...Ethiopian Empire, he signed up and went to East Africa, busy with "ideas for Army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum to mitigate the Ethiopian desert." On foreign policy he has been no less articulate. Once, when England was in mild disfavor, he clarioned: "Down with roast beef and pudding in England!" Later, when Britain was temporarily being courted, "The English," he stated, "are a wonderful nation." Another time, when the British were being reviled for sanctions, he issued "A Futurist Manifesto to Liberate Ourselves From English Habits . . . tea-drinking, snobbery, golfing, pipe-smoking, bridge-playing and an inexplicable...
...late fantastic T. E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom) once observed: "The invention of bully-beef has modified land-war more profoundly than the invention of gunpowder . . . because . . . range is more to strategy than force...
...Beef preserved in glass or tins is a chemical achievement. When the U. S. entered World War I, the problem of getting food across the Atlantic was as important as shipping men and arms. Meats were smoked, beef was boned, vegetables were dehydrated, vinegar was concentrated, fruits were dried, coffee was condensed into soluble cubes. A billion tin cans paved the way to France for the A. E. F. The job was done so well that U. S. soldiers gained in weight an average 12 lb. a man. These and many more facts are pointed out in Chemistry in Warfare...
...wife of a disabled electrical worker in St. Louis and the mother of eight, was elected "Mrs. Unemployed American Mother." Her family food allowance: $58.85 a month. Rent allowance: $10. Mrs. Roosevelt was invited to sit next Mrs. Easley at a reliefer's dinner. The menu: 2 oz. beef stew, % carrot, 1 onion, % potato, % slice of bread, 1 pat of oleomargarine, 1 canned prune. Mrs. Roosevelt agreed that the dinner was not quite enough...