Word: beef
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several weeks Pancho, the quick-tongued green parrot at Washington's Pan American Union, had reviled an Argentine student named Victor Fernandez, who went there to bone up on Latin American literature. One day last week Pancho screamed: "You're a beef-eating gaucho." Fernandez, who had had enough from one parrot, got angry and threatened to kill the bird...
...Butcher shops had little pork, prime beef, lamb or turkeys to sell. Farmers sold most of their hogs last spring, have few to market now. Nearly 40% of the four better grades of beef was set aside for the armed forces. The nation's 36,000,000 turkeys were held off the market until the Government placed its orders for 80,000,000 pounds. By last week the Army had nearly filled its needs and turkeys may again be sold to civilians (see U.S. AT WAR). But there will not be enough birds for Thanksgiving and Christmas...
...rented 270 acres for himself. In 1943 young Ellison was not so much a Future Farmer as a future country gentleman. In that year, he had 220 acres of cotton, 265 of milo, 27 of Sudan grass, ten of hegari (grain sorghums), 64 hogs, four dairy cattle, two beef cattle, 350 hens. Total net income for the year...
...Torbie, the Australian troops are among the hardest-hitting fighters in the world, ranking with the United States Marines. "Toughest guys I've ever seen," he says. "While our men can 'get along' on one dinner of K Ration a day, the Aussies eat a can of Bully Beef and think it's a good meal...
Costa Ricans thanked the petulance of a neighboring dictator for an elegant revision of the national diet. It used to consist chiefly of beef. But Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza changed that. Wounded by Costa Rica's hospitality to his political enemies, he closed the southern frontier to the export of cattle. His Costa Rican neighbors thereupon turned to sea turtle -a delicacy formerly earmarked for gourmets...