Word: beef
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year for hurrying. New York subway guards picked up 7,800 abandoned umbrellas, 54,517 other articles, ranging from roasts of beef to copies of Forever Amber. U.S. airlines carried more passengers and freight, flew more miles than ever before. The railroads broke all records, both for transporting passengers and leaving them behind in stations...
...most of his books, the prime beef is liberally pieced out with baloney. But the observation is often keen and clinical, the virulence both ferocious and funny...
Ever since Milo of Crotona, in the 6th Century B.C., lugged a four-year-old cow to a sacrificial altar, farm boys have been trying to duplicate his legendary feat. Rural jokesters long ago figured out how a man might lift better than his weight in beef. If a growing boy lifts a small calf, they say, and keeps lifting it day after day, why shouldn't the grown man eventually be able to lift the full grown cow? For the Borden Co.'s farm-flavored radio show, County Fair, the ancient gag looked good as new. Last...
...party Jiggs would have mightily enjoyed. Into the lofty grand ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, shirt-sleeved waiters, sweating, bumping against chairs and calling hoarse warnings, ferried outsize trays of corned beef & cabbage. Powers models swirled among the 1,031 guests, handing out clay pipes. On the stage, aging Funnyman Arthur ("Bugs") Baer cracked wise, a line of Bloomer Girls pranced through a dance routine, Bing Crosby crooned Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, and then Morton Downey sang it again...
...average citizen will get substantially more food of all kinds than this year, will probably get even mere than in 1944, when he ate a record 11% above the level of prewar years. The only remaining shortages will be in pork, high-grade beef, butter, sugar and canned fish-where there will not be enough to satisfy the demand at present price and prosperity levels. And even these shortages are more apparent than real. The average consumption of meat next year will be 145-155 pounds; the record for the last 30 years was 150 pounds...