Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Cheap food is cheaper, easier to find, in more places. Adequate lunch at a place with tablecloths: 75?. Prize food buy for the thrifty was at the new 5 and 10 Cent Restaurant (10? items: spaghetti, pork chops, beef stew, meat loaf). (Said a tough Manhattan moppet on opening day: "Five cents for meatballs! They should give us hamburgers!"). Hamburgers cost...
...Adventures of a Biologist. Famed problem child of British scientists, prolific science writer, expert on poison gas, big, bristly-tempered, 47-year-old Biologist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane believes that life without adventure is "like beef without mustard." But his idea of adventure is not safaris; it is exploring the ultramicroscopic world, the stratosphere, the nature rather than the surface of the earth. Besides essays on the biologist in relation to everything from town-planning to death, Biologist Haldane speculates on the effect of weather on history, on the possibility of a new ice age, on the chances...
Seventy-five per cent of the plants are situated in rural areas, but lockermen have their eyes on the big city markets. They say, for example, that housewives can save $100 on the annual meat bill of a family of five by buying a side of beef wholesale at a little better than half the retail price and having a locker plant's butcher cut and freeze it. Apostle of this drive to invade the cities is stumpy, chipper, leather-lunged Alfred Michael Reilly, Baker's Chicago sales engineer, who has peddled ice machinery for 27 years. Weekly...
...flesh by a corps of cunuchs to steal silently up to the doors of the rooms, leave the tray, and then vanish when the scholars of Kirkland House weary from wrestling alone with knowledge and culture . . . and come out to munch on a little Veal Saute or Beef a la Dutch. William N. Parker...
...Johnson & Johnson last year, the Clapp firm had a line of 29 products suitable for carrying a four-month-old infant straight through to his fifth year. Packaged in four-and-a-half-ounce tins retailing at about 8? apiece, the cans of strained or chopped liver, lamb and beef complete with vegetables and vitamins left busy mothers little to do but make up dessert for Junior...