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...Last year's meat consumption was above 1930 but still below 1929. The Institute's figures cover the Federally inspected two-thirds of the industry's meat. The other one-third is slaughtered at small abattoirs not engaged in interstate trade, or at local butcher shops. The rise in meat eating the Institute attributes to low prices, in some cases the lowest of the century. The sharp rally in hogs (TIME, July 11) only brought pork prices abreast of the 1904 level...
When War came in 1917 William Hushka, 22-year-old Lithuanian, sold his St. Louis butcher shop, gave the proceeds to his wife, joined the Army. He was sent to Camp Funston, Kan. where he was naturalized. Honorably discharged in 1919, he drifted to Chicago, worked as a butcher, seemed unable to hold a steady job. His wife divorced him, kept their small daughter. Long jobless, in June he joined a band of veterans marching to Washington to fuse with the Bonus Expeditionary Force. "I might as well starve there as here," he told his brother. At the capital...
...leave their books, but watchful lest they forget to appear bored; Freshmen do study, just before examinations. But the glamour of the scene did not escape even their indifferent eyes. Perhaps they were a little more aware of the sweat rolling off the double chin of the fat butcher, and the limp of the clerk whose shoes were too now, but those purple fezes and furred shakoes made their conquest...
...hundred years. One of his captives he named Spitfire II because of its likeness to another black leopard that had once removed a piece of the Buck thumb. Spitfire was caged on the deck of a Chinese-manned boat bound for Singapore. Nearby sat a Chinese butcher sharpening a knife. The butcher plunged his knife into a pig's throat, Spitfire smelled blood, burst from his cage, leapt over the side. Beastcatcher Buck felt his hair-roots tingle as a shark's fin cut the water near the swimming leopard. The shark struck, threw the leopard clear...
...Author. James Hanley, latest White Hope of the intelligentsia, was born in Dublin in 1901, went to sea at the same age as his hero. 13. In 1916 he joined the army, returning to the sea after the War. Onetime stoker, cook, butcher, clerk, post man. Author Hanley knows the proletariat of which he writes. His writing induces nausea in some readers?Hugh Walpole leading the hue & cry with a public shriek of horror?but causes in others a vehement banner-waving. Among the banner men are Thomas Edward Shaw (Col. Lawrence), Richard Aldington, John Cowper Powys. Laboriously punting upstream...