Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times they garnish their mash with manure to speed fermentation; occasionally a rat, hog or snake crawls into the vat, gobbles its fill dies, and floats there until the batch of moonshine is ready for the still. Sometimes the fermenting corn is tinctured with Clorox or lye to beef up its punch (moonshine is rarely more than 75 proof...
...Entreguismo." In Argentina, which must sell beef in order to buy foreign oil, the saying goes that "every time you start a car you kill a cow." President Juan Perón wants foreigners to come in and produce enough oil to supply his country's needs and to staunch the wound that bleeds the economy of some $200 million a year. Perón last April signed the contract with California Standard, subject to legislative approval. Its main provisions were those that in general prevail throughout the world: 1) a 50-50 split of profits between government...
...Hong Kong these days, markets and bazaars are flooded with produce from Red China-white rice and spiced beef, ham from Yunnan, berries from Ningpo, litchi from Canton and dried melons from faraway Sinkiang. It might seem a land of plenty that can afford to export so many delicacies. But in Hong Kong one day last week, reported TIME Correspondent Val Chu, a four-year-old girl refugee from Red China sat down with her relatives for a meal of pork and rice. She picked up a piece of pork, licked it, put it down and began shoveling mouthfuls...
...said it will begin test-marketing it next month in Cincinnati, which has one of the highest concentrations of older people in the U.S. Heinz "Senior Foods" will be sold in single-serving, 8½-oz. cans, are expected to retail for 25? to 30?. First varieties available: beef, lamb and chicken stews...
MEAT FORECAST has been pushed up another notch by the Agriculture Department, which now estimates that outtmt will hit a record 26,250,000.000 Ibs., about 3% more than last year and nearly 250 million Ibs. ahead of earlier predictions. As a result, beef prices will drop slightly, while pork, now 20% to 30% below last year's levels, will stay about the same...