Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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With a habitual huge carry-over of wheat (this year, 288,000,000 bu.) the U. S. needs no wheat from Argentina. It needs no corn or meat grown in the fat lands of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and eastern Bolivia. Of South American metals, only tin, manganese, bauxite, platinum and vanadium could be bought by the U. S. without competition with its own economy. The U. S. could use rubber from Brazil, but Brazil's present output of rubber is negligible and it takes at least seven years for a rubber plantation to become commercially workable. Thus, several years...
Like many Irishmen, many Hindus believe that Britain's poison is their meat. With German hemlock close to British lips last week, India seemed to have quit talking about dominion status as the price of docility. The London Times's Simla correspondent anxiously reported: "An offer of full freedom within the British Commonwealth no longer meets the [Indian National] Congress case, which . . . asks for complete independence outside the orbit of the British Commonwealth...
...condemnation proceedings. He ingratiated himself with the Eskimos by dealing out not only reindeer but great quantities of bubble gum. The Government will collect the herds he purchased in reindeer corrals built by the Eskimo CCC, will lend reindeer to Eskimos for breeding, or in cases of destitution, for meat and clothing...
...there is no continent between Australia and South America. He also discovered that lime or lemon juice prevents scurvy, and was so far in advance of his age that he flogged his seamen only when they preferred rum to fruit juice. In the end he fell a victim to meat eaters. On one of the islands which he had named after the inventor of the sandwich (the Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty), the proponent of lime juice was captured by cannibals. From shipboard that night his men watched the telltale barbecue fires. Next day they cowed...
...Schuylers now broil their meat lightly, instead of eating the raw, bloody, buttered beef and liver they used to.) Her parents were not surprised at Philippa's precocity, which began when she crawled 18 inches at the age of a month, read, wrote her name, spelled 150 long words at two. At four she could, and persistently did, spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico-volcanoniosis.* A pianist since she was a little over three, Philippa Schuyler has repeatedly won prizes in tournaments of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, and in competitions of young listeners to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...