Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charging the Taxpayer. Meanwhile, the Democrats made what hay they could out of discontent on the farm. Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler last week proposed 90% parity for basic crops on family-size farms, plus the extension of supports to hogs, eggs, poultry, beef cattle, whole milk and butterfat. Democrats generally favor the Brannan Plan, under which the farmers would sell their goods in the marketplace for what they could get, and the Government would make up the difference to a predetermined "fair return." Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, still recovering from a heart attack, announced that new farm price...
...delicatessen, the proprietor refused to let him leave without a 3-ft. gift roll of salami. But from Marine Corps Commandant Lemuel Shepherd Jr. came the most important response of all: Captain Richard S. McCutchen, USMC, was ordered to Washington to review the sunset parade and dine (on roast beef) amid the general's shimmering crystal. That almost equaled $64,000 (net $32,850) any time...
...former chairman of Boston's William Filene's Sons Co. To pay some of the Nation's bills, Kirstein is himself putting a limited (and unspecified) sum into the nonprofit company that holds all Nation stock, hopes to raise enough new cash to beef up the Nation...
...quite an ordeal. "I used to eat six eggs and half a loaf of bread for breakfast," he wistfully recalled last week. "Sometimes a can of corned beef. But my big meal was dinner." And at parties and luaus, he really let go, consuming three bowls of two-finger poi and "everything else on the table": kalua pig, pork laulau (pork and salmon wrapped in taro leaves), pulehu aku (dried fish), lomi (salmon, raw, with tomatoes and chopped onion), chicken luau, dried squid, raw fish and limu (chopped seaweed), baked breadfruit and baked taro, haupia (coconut pudding), all washed down...
...alarmed. Since last month's riots in Casablanca (TIME, July 25), 60,000 of their troops have been standing guard in Morocco, but more, apparently, were needed. From its limited reserves in Europe, the French army flew a battalion of marines and a company of security police to beef up the Moroccan garrison. It even took space on commercial airliners to fetch hundreds of Senegalese NCOs from their units in Indo-China...