Word: beef
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gorgeous excursion. The Author. Edna Ferber, pride of Kalamazoo, Mich., where she was born 39 years ago, and at Appleton, Wis., whose public schools she attended, lives beside Central Park nowadays, a national celebrity since 1912 or so, when her stories began appearing regularly in the magazines. Roast Beef Medium, Emma McChesney & Co., The Girls and So Big are the most familiar echoes to her name. She trains severely for authorship; swims, dives, secludes herself in a Basque fisher village...
...brass band. On the tug's side was a great white arrow with the legend, "This Way, Ole Kid." The band played The Star-Spangled Banner. Miss Ederle responded from the water. She swam the first four miles in three hours and had a drink of beef juice. The band played Yes, We HAVE No Bananas. Miss Cannon got into the water and swam for an hour; Miss Ederle offered her a drink of chocolate. Miss Ederle ate some chicken. The band played Valencia. It was six o'clock and she could see the cliffs of Dover...
...upward trend. Customers are doing leisurely buying, and manufacturers keeping production near demand. Many commodity prices, especially of foods, receded slightly during the week. In April, butter, lard, lead, zinc, cotton, print cloths and rubber reached their lows for the year. This happened to copper, hides and beef at the end of March. Gasoline and crude oil have mounted with the opening of the season...
...Dallas, Tex., last week, some 6,000 members of the American Medical Association met in annual convention, ate 4,000 pounds of barbecue young beef, attended eight scientific sections, elected Dr. Wendell Christopher Phillips, great aural surgeon of Manhattan, president...
Raising the stroke near the finish, Captain Winthrop's men drove steadily up on the Freshman boat, but the "beef trust," as the 1929 crew is nicknamed, was equal to the task and kept in the lead...