Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wide-Open Cow Town. The Kansas City on which Roy Roberts shines has changed in appearance only slightly in recent years, but it has changed its character considerably. Kansas City grew big and rich on the nation's appetite for meat and bread and for the West's desires for the East's calicos and gadgets. But Kansas City also grew famed among U.S. cities for its sin. The cow town became a little Paris, a wide-open playground for cattlemen, drummers, oil wildcatters, and-somewhat later-glad-handing U.S. conventiongoers...
...Hello. In Bristol, England, Butcher William Eddy, arrested for brandishing a meat saw and a carving knife on High Street, declared that he was just waving to a friend...
...fact-finding board. Meanwhile the union agreed to accept the 9? offer provided it was retroactive to Jan. 12 and that other demands were arbitrated. The packers turned that down. At week's end, 2,000 C.I.O. pickets plodded around the stockyards, watched by 2,500 Chicago cops. Meat prices jumped up from 3? to 12? in seven days...
Manhattan's buoyant Symon Gould, vice presidential candidate of the Vegetarian Party (TIME, March 22), last week dispatched an open letter to Britain's eminent austeritarian and anti-meat man, Sir Stafford Cripps. Wrote Gould...
Married. Gwendoline de Rothschild, 21, brunette Barnard College student, younger daughter of the late Baron Alphonse de Rothschild of Vienna, great-granddaughter of Banking Dynast Solomon de Rothschild; and H. Roland Hoguet, 27, socialite meat salesman (Armour) ; in Manhattan...