Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year (TIME. Feb. 7, 1955). Last spring the USDA and the Florida Livestock Board set up a million-dollar screwworm factory at Sebring, Fla. The fierce, legless maggots are fed on 80,000 Ibs. a week of mixed whale and horse meat flavored with 4,500 gals, of beef blood. When they get their growth and turn into pupae, they are harvested, packed into aluminum canisters, and exposed for 6-2 minutes to gamma rays from radioactive cobalt...
...Screen Extras Guild reports that some producers of westerns are chiseling on their cowboys by taking them off their hosses too often and photographing them on foot. Cause of the beef: filmland cowpokes get $29.04 per eight-hour day in the saddle, only...
...decision of the Undergraduate Athletic Council to beef up the cheerleading squad may result in more impressive "fight team"s, but the sudden action with which the present cheerleaders have been replaced is regrettable...
...land of beef-price plenty, Nebraska is a state where organized labor has little real influence, and the brightest spot in the Midwestern picture for Republicans...
...Attack. After each failure of McGowen and his crew, the neighborhood became more outraged. Complaints piled into department headquarters; the pressure increased. The dogcatchers tried every trick they knew. They loaded ground beef with dope tablets; Maverick found it, ate the meat, left the pellets on the ground. They mapped out the streets he used, staked themselves out in concealment with lassos, but Maverick, 80 Ibs. of muscle and speed, trotted new avenues. They even set out a trap baited with a boxer bitch in heat, but Maverick and the bitch tore the trap apart and loped happily off together...