Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action by loud protests from the California Cattlemen's Association, he charged that the Army & Navy were buying their beef from Australia and New Zealand to supply outposts in the Philippines, Hawaii, the Canal Zone. It was claimed that a city of 100,000 could subsist on these foreign meat purchases, which exceeded 6,500,000 Ib. per year. Other provender which the Army & Navy have been buying in part abroad included beans, cereals, dairy products. The Cal- ifornia Cattlemen's Association pointed out that Hawaiian beef was being dumped on the Pacific coast, adding to the surplus and depressing...
Rear Admiral Joseph Johnston Cheatham, Paymaster General of the Navy and Chief of the Bureau of Supplies & Accounts, insisted that his agents at Cavite and Pearl Harbor bought meat from Australia and New Zealand only because the U. S. product was either not available or more costly. Naval supply officers last year bought 20,000,000 Ib. of meat, of which only 10% came from abroad...
Quartermaster General John Lesesne De Witt explained that the Army's meat purchases are in the hands of depot quar-termasters in the corps areas. In the Philippines the Army & Navy club together to buy meat on one contract to get a lower price. Both Admiral Cheatham and General De Witt said they would be "delighted" to buy beef from U. S. packers if it could be shipped to foreign stations to meet the foreign price. Declared Acting Secretary of War Davison...
Moscow is hungry for fresh vegetables, could do with more fresh meat. The bread shortage of last year no longer exists, but this evidence of better times was all but ignored last week as a great squawk began about the Vegetable Scandal. Squawked the Workers' Gazette...
...swine raisers of East Prussia," boomed Deputy Freybe, "I say, 'Don't raise so many hogs.' If you must raise hogs, raise thin ones, raise them for meat, not for fat. We must remember the younger generation in Germany. It is keen on sport and hygiene. It thinks of its waistline. It absolutely cannot be made to eat hog fat and lard...