Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most hotels during the war, had turned almost all of them back again. Clothing was at last unrationed, but not petrol: visitors would get the 1948 allowance of 600 miles for the first two weeks, 400 for the second, plus enough gas to go to &. from their furthest destination. Meat was scarce, British cooking was as dull as ever, and prices were comparatively high. But the intellectual fare was good. The Shakespeare season was scheduled to open this month at Stratford on Avon, the Malvern Festival to be revived with a new Shaw play in July, and the third Edinburgh...
...revision of the act, CAB will finish four fact-finding inquiries into 1) mail-carrying costs; 2) the economy and efficiency of the major airlines; 3) the feasibility of joint airport and ticket facilities; and 4) air freight rates. It seemed to O'Connell that somewhere between the "meat-ax approach" to the problem of subsidies and the present tendency to higher & higher mail pay there must be a road to a system of sounder and more profitable airlines...
...biology laboratories of this institution contain some 33,000 well preserved animal specimens, the average weight of a specimen being 8.26 ounces. Using present meat portions in the Dining Halls as the basis for my calculations, I find that there is enough meat in the laboratories for 152,800,000 meals, or a sixty-six year supply. Even after doubling the portions, which would be only humane, there still remains enough meat for a thirty-three year supply. Using this preserved meat is the essence of husbandry. The jars, now freed of their contents, could be melted down and utilized...
Still other advantages are gained. By devouring, the biology specimens, hundreds of square feet of floor space, formerly used to store the preserved animals, will be freed for some worthy project such as a housing development. The University meat supply would become constant and nutritive, and several overworked deans, now in charge of meat procurement, could return to their former jobs as floorwalkers in Widener...
Briefly recapitulating, this plan would solve the meat shortage in the College, help to solve the housing shortage feed the handicapped of Boston, and save countless hours of intense effort on the part of men, women, and deans...