Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This represents a basic change in University policy. Until now the University has charged the same for all dinners, roast beef or chipped beef regardless...
Small Taxes. To market the beef from their ranches, where they run 15,000 head of cattle, they built their own packing plant. They added a chain of wholesale and retail general stores, four Chevrolet agencies, four movie theaters, some 20 other enterprises. "We were doing in a hurry," says Chito, "what it took a hundred years...
...Hollywood Dance Hall in Yong-dungpo (a suburb of Seoul) last week, Sergeant John A. Wallace Jr. of Edmeston, N.Y., celebrated his 22nd birthday. Deciding to do well by himself and his friends, he hired the place, laid out a feast of roast beef, baked ham, potato salad, beer, whisky and champagne. While a six-piece native orchestra struggled manfully with U.S. dance music, G.I.s contentedly swung kisaeng girls (Korean equivalent of Japan's geishas) around the floor. Cost to Sergeant Wallace: $200. Said he happily: "This is my fourth birthday in the Far East, my second in Korea...
Idle G.I.s were putting up signs on the muddy roads. One, newly mounted last week, announced the exact number of miles (6,669) to the Wall drugstore in Wall, S. Dak. Lonely engineer outfits were attracting passersby with such signs as "Joe's Joint-hot coffee and beef sandwiches-two miles ahead." The areas just behind the front were crawling with sightseers, mostly flyers, sailors and civilians...
...with magnificently bronzed complexions glowing with not quite believable health." Noting Sportcaster Red Barber's comment on First Baseman Hodges' rippling muscles, Critic Smith added: "You could see 'em, too, although they were encased in a pelt of somewhat lovelier tone-about the shade of roast beef medium-than Gil wears in real life...