Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist General Lin Piao followed hard on Fu's heels, drew a siege ring around the city. By week's end both airfields outside the city walls were in Communist hands. Electricity and water lines were cut. Food prices doubled and tripled; fresh vegetables and meat almost disappeared from the markets...
...consumers, most of them were welcome. Food, which had risen so much higher than anything else, was finally dropping enough to be a help to budget-bound housewives; meat, butter, eggs, etc. were all down. Dun & Bradstreet's weekly index of the wholesale food price (per pound) of 31 items slid to $6.33, lowest in 17 months, and 14% below July's alltime high...
Within half an hour MacWilliams was winging south toward Nanking. There he waited nearly four hours for gasoline. He ate a meal of rice and meat stew scooped out of a big pot in the chow tent, and at regular intervals argued with the ground crewmen to get going on gassing. By noon he was on his way back to Suchow with another load of rice...
...came along, headlines tended to be wordy and dull, with each "bank" of type telling part of the story. Now, most headlines are briefer and more to the point. Nowhere in the U.S. are they as pointed, cynical, impudent or brassily clever as in the Daily News. Sample (on meat prices and inflation...
Sometimes, generally towards evening, it occurs to him that the squirrels didn't have much meat on them. Some of the Radcliffe freshman look much. . . No! There are some thoughts that even an own dare not think. But it's all so tempting, because anything he does is okay and part of the ASPCA's balance of nature. Surely it doesn't apply only to owls, muses the wise one. People are the ones who make the rules, and they are like owls, only not so wise. If they believe that what is goes, perhaps they live that way themselves...