Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jenner took every opportunity to stand at Eisenhower's elbow, slap his shoulders, get photographed with him. At a roast-beef luncheon, Jenner closed a roaring speech by telling how he had visited a hospital nursery where the newborn squalled noisily. Cried Jenner: "If you came into the world and you had nothing but a diaper on, and you owed the Government $2,000 as your part of the national debt, and your diaper was wet, by God, you'd be crying too!" Ike colored, ducked his head, put both hands over his ears-then laughed gustily...
Photographer Ralph P. Creer of Chicago, who specializes in medical pictures, had often heard that human and animal eyes are natural cameras. But he had never seen any pictures taken with them. Creer got a collection of pig, sheep and beef eyes from Chicago's stockyards and set to work...
...crowded the biggest shipments of steers since World War II's end. Some had come from such drought-parched areas as Oklahoma, where ranchers could not grass-feed them any longer. But most of the shipments were moving because of a simple fact: after six years of high beef prices and bumper corn crops for feed, U.S. ranges are bulging with 88 million head of beef cattle, the greatest in history...
...promise to balance the French budget without raising taxes. At first, Pinay did remarkably well (TIME, April 21 et seq.), but by last week his "save-the-franc" campaign had fallen afoul of man and nature. Foot-and-mouth disease, raging in central France, had ravaged cattle herds, sent beef and veal prices soaring. A hot, rainless summer reduced butter and cheese production, ripened a grape harvest so abundant that the bottom fell out of the wine market. Rearmament cutbacks produced spotty unemployment in the engineering trades; French labor unions threatened new demands for wage increases. With
Stenographers typed in air-conditioned comfort; when they wanted a breather, they strolled into an airy lounge with an outside wall of glass, and sank into deep and comfortable modern chairs. At noon, the 1,200 employees all had a free three-course meal (main course: roast beef) in a spacious cafeteria; afterward, they could stroll along shady paths through 27½ landscaped acres surrounding the building. Off work at 4:15, they could swim in a big (75 ft. by 42 ft.) swimming pool, play tennis on two courts, get a book from the free lending library...