Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Vandenberg did not question the right of appropriations committees to weigh and to cut individual figures. But he scathingly denounced the House's "meat-ax technique" in arbitrarily stretching appropriations over 15 instead of twelve months...
...Almost unnoticed by the numbed consumer, meat prices crawled to an alltime high. In New York City last week the average for porterhouse steak was $1.03 a pound, for round steak $1.00. ¶ In Michigan City, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Agnew, 33, had her dentist arrested for assault and battery. The dentist, she said, had pulled a dozen of her teeth without permission, gave her no anesthetic, took a drink of whiskey after each extraction. ¶Cincinnati Common Pleas Judge Stanley Struble, 82, took a long look at a series of magazine pictures showing a young woman stripping down...
...mixed vegetables, 8,000 Ibs. of fresh fish and meat, 36,000 Ibs. of lettuce. One result: Inter-Island's boats are now out of business except for heavy shipping and an occasional junket for honeymooners...
Practically the only other island income comes from an occasional hardy tourist who makes the five-to-six-day trip from Valparaiso to see where Robinson Crusoe (who ate goat meat, turtle eggs, but no lobsters) was famously marooned...
Compressed into 75 feet of debris were proofs of slow climatic changes as the great glacier to the north advanced or receded. During one long period the cave dwellers ate snails, heaping the empty shells around the dinner table. At another, the ancient hunters fed their families on rhinoceros meat. Father Ewing believes that the cave deposits give an accurate chronology of climate and cultural changes in the ancient Near East...