Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this operation been so little used? One objection offered by some surgeons is that while it increases the heart muscle's blood supply, the increase is not strong enough. Cleveland's noted Heart Surgeon Claude Shaeffer Beck invented a powder operation (using ground-up beef bone or asbestos instead of talc), then put it aside in favor of a more radical job-revamping the heart's plumbing system by an arterial graft (TIME, June...
Likes & Dislikes. They made a study of food likes & dislikes. They found that New Englanders ate most of the corned beef in the U.S., preferred their corn yellow, their eggs brown, and liked a wider, fatter bacon than most other Americans. They found that prim-mouthed Philadelphia was the nation's biggest market for dried prunes, and ate more ice cream per capita than any other city in the world. Richmond liked "triple succotash," a mixture of lima beans, corn and potatoes; Scranton, Pa. bought more butter per capita than any other city...
...Varsity Club not only provided a large number of its faithful with an edible portion of roast beef (Flanked by french fries and lime beans). Friday night last, but also came within a G-string of presenting an exhibition on the violin by Phil Isenberg. Isenberg, who specializes in punching people's faces off in the winter and racking up enemy ball-carriers in the autumn, was to have accompanied Rex Johnson, but the tunes which Isenberg and Johnson had came prepared to render were not one. Johnson sang a number popular in 1890, after the football team of that...
...correct quantities, to 45,000 news dealers, stationers, booksellers, druggists, department stores, etc. throughout the U.S. and Canada. Among other things, these magazine retailers are a source of continuing information about TIME readers. For instance, Dave Snyder, who runs a newsstand in Denver, reports that his customers always "beef" on the few occasions when TIME is late. Like many other dealers these days, Harold Raub, who operates a newsstand in Battle Creek, Mich., has had a hard time keeping enough copies of TIME on hand since the Korean war began. Says he: "They're certainly strong for TIME...
Professor Black, viewing the agricultural sector of the economy, said selective price controls might soon be needed on such currently high-demand items as wool and beef. "But until things are much clearer," be said, "we should continue to encourage dairy production and not rush to convert our feed reserves into meat." We may also need more farm machinery, he added, because the demand for labor will probably draw workers from the farms to the factories...