Word: beef
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final reason for the break lay in British diplomacy. The British have been reluctant to embargo Argentina. Not only do they need Argentine beef, but they have large investments in handling it. Nevertheless, they may well have outbluffed the Argentines. Or the British may have made the most of Nazi connections with high Argentine officials (rumor mentioned even Perón himself). In any case, the sudden break of relations was a welcome relief for the British, since it made an embargo unthinkable, left British interests intact...
...long prided himself on running the biggest open shop in the world had signed his first contract with the mighty U.A.W.-C.I.O. Afterwards, in his private dining room, he fed poached eggs on corned beef hash to the union signers...
Many an exsanguine U.S. blood donor sighed with relief last week when he read an excited dispatch from London announcing that beef blood plasma can be used for human transfusions. But the use of beef blood is not new: doctors have long known that it could replace human blood plasma-if every trace of certain beef substances poisonous to man were removed...
Last autumn a U.S. blood expert, Julian Herman Lewis, announced that he had made beef plasma safe by treating it with alkali. Last week's real news was that Dr. F. Ronald Edwards of the University of Liverpool has figured out a way to purify it with heat. If one of these methods can be used for mass production, the plasma supply will be almost limitless-a 1,000-Ib. steer is 7% blood...
Research to find a substitute for human plasma does not stop with beef blood. Some substitutes that work: coconut milk, casein, isinglass (fish gelatin), pectin. But doctors still reserve their real enthusiasm for safe human plasma or human serum albumin...