Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tipton's farmers had the relaxed air of men who have plenty of meat in their smokehouses, though they weren't the kind to crow about it. "I don't aim to get caught if anything happens," said Farmer Clarence Horton. Horton, who farms 200 acres on a 50-50 basis with the owner, started from scratch 20 years ago; the last five years have set him firmly on his feet. He now owns two tractors and a combine; his barn and tool sheds are jammed with plows, harrows, seeders. "I have bought everything I am going...
...Thinner Meat. Britons were freed of some other Spartan restrictions. Wilson eased gasoline rations to allow 810 miles of "pleasure-motoring" during the summer (the former quota was 540 miles). As soon as circumstances permitted, Wilson promised a "bonfire of controls...
...week also brought a blow for Britons. Argentina, which supplies nearly a third of Britain's meat, had cut deliveries. This meant that Britain's meat ration, already thinner than a slice of boardinghouse beefsteak, would be cut by another...
...Meat. The Tax Court of the U.S. ruled that merchants who paid black market prices for merchandise during OPA days can deduct such illegal payments as a cost of doing business. For Houston's black-marketeering Select Meat Co., in the test case, the ruling meant a $60,000 tax saving...
What makes this book so valuable is the fact that there is enough meat in it to keep thoughtful readers growling over it indefinitely. The critic may well argue that Eliot's definition of culture is too personal and too narrow. He may insist that few aristocrats contribute as much to culture as they drain from it-and that the same may be said of poverty, illiteracy, class friction and bigotry. He may even insist, as most people do, that the flexible human race can always be relied on to re-create a new culture even while...