Word: beef
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planned to ration most of the foods which had become point-free earlier this year: meat (including utility-grade beef), canned vegetables, fats...
...Five to ten pounds less than the 135-145 pounds of meat per person in 1944-less pork, probably no more (but slightly better) beef. Fewer chickens, but another egg glut...
...Beef and Britain. Instead of speaking softly and carrying a big stick, the U.S. had been shouting loudly to cover up the fact that it could not use its big stick, for reasons of Hemisphere policy. The Argentines refused to be bluffed. Short of armed force, about the only effective action against Argentina would be a joint U.S.-British embargo on Argentine trade. Britain was reluctant, for three good reasons. Argentines knew all three...
Britain needed Argentine beef and other products, which feed much of its civilian population and many of the Allied soldiers fighting in Europe. Even under far stricter rationing, the U.S. could not replace the Argentine supplies. The enormous British investments in Argentina ($1,287,005,000) were a hostage for Britain's continued inaction. Most important of all, Britain considers Argentina a very desirable trade partner. She produces what Britain needs and needs what Britain produces. Britain had sound reasons for not wanting Argentina to be drawn into the U.S. orbit...
...self-devotion," wrote Marie in her secret notebook. When her husband discovered the notebook he was furious. "A bad wife is to her husband as rottenness to his bones," he roared. Screamed Marie: "Do not provoke me . . . you Stinkard, Base Slubberdegullion, Cheesy Plagiarist, Immortal Whip-Arse, Eater of Stinking Beef!" Poet Milton hurriedly sent her home to learn manners, and Mother Powell shrieked that he deserved to be whipped. But after a few years Father Powell saw that the Parliamentary forces were going to win the Civil War, so he sent Marie back to her influential husband...