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...Scandinavian-looking farmers. They had come from as far away as California, most of them in automobiles and "house-cars" (trailers) which they had parked in a camp far out on Massachusetts Avenue. For five days they crowded Washington Auditorium, fraternizing, listening to speeches, consuming hamburgers with gravy (5?), beef stew (20?), buttermilk (5?), alfalfa tea (5?) in the basement until it was rank with mixed smells. They were "Jehovah's Witnesses"-otherwise known as the International Bible Students Association, followers of Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford...
...serious as a feed shortage. Last week the feed shortage had produced what looked very much like a food shortage. To be sure, there was enough wheat for bread, potatoes were plentiful and the fruit and vegetable crops were good. But for the first time in years consumption of beef and pork had practically overtaken supply...
...horde of plain Eastside housewives, chanting "down with high meat prices!" invaded the distributing plants of Wilson & Co. and United Dressed Beef Co. In The Bronx 2,000 women volunteering as pickets succeeded in closing down more than 1,000 meat shops. In Brooklyn a poultry dealer named William Sheeger carried a chicken home for supper. Pickets, mistaking him for a customer who would not join the boycott, hurled a rock through his window, pummeled him. Confined at first to kosher shops, the strike spread to some nonkosher operators. Strike leaders claimed that more than 4,000 shops had been...
...Veal Leg and rump .29 .24 Breast .19 .14 Shoulder .24 .16 Cutlets .45 .39 Beef Rib roast .34 .24 Sirloin roast .42 .32 Chuck with bone .31 .21 Porterhouse steak .50 .44 Sirloin steak .41 .36 Round steak .42 .33 Chuck steak...
Lord Chatham could not possibly have had the Harvard dining halls in mind when in one of his letters, he let drop this pearl of wisdom. Yet had be written in just after some Beef a la Dutch had been dropped down his lordly neck without so much as an "I beg your pardon," or a request for another noggin of milk had been answered by a noncommittal noise in the throat, his remark could not have been more...