Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion national income, the U.S. was eating a lot higher off the hog. (This year's pork consumption is approaching 82 Ibs. per person, compared to 70 Ibs. last year, a lean 48 Ibs. in 1935.) Moreover, even at present prices, pork was still a bargain compared to beef and lamb, and many housewives were buying more of it instead. But the lesson that seemed to have been lost on Charlie Brannan was that a growing U.S. economy perhaps did not require quite as much forced feeding as the Fair Deal economists thought...
TIME tries each week to print the news of business that is most significant, the news the editors think you should know about. It may be about beef cattle, movies, models, railroads, hotels, airlines, automakers, and scores of other dissimilar topics. It may be an old-fashioned success story-in many ways the lifeblood of a free-enterprising economy. Sometimes it is a story of business failure...
This isn't so remarkable when one considers that last year 'Cliffe-dwellers polished off five tons of roast lamb, four tons of roast beef, three tons of ham, and almost two tons of butter. As if this weren'nt cough, they topped it off with 12,300 eggs and close to 300 gallons of ice cream...
Break this down into per capita consumption and each girl accounts for 11 pounds of beef, nine of lamb, a more three gallons of ice cream, and just over four pounds of butter. Over the course of a full year, this means that the average student receives meat at least 12 times a week, ice cream usually twice a week, and generous supplies of butter at all meals except dinner...
...world's gastronomic jargon was created in the 18th and 19th Centuries by log-rolling cooks to commemorate their masters' favorite dishes. Some European aristocrats were also amateur cooks and imposed their names on their concoctions, e.g., Count Stroganoff, a 19th Century Russian diplomat and inventor of Beef Stroganoff.* Sometimes chefs also designated dishes in honor of great events, e.g., Pheasant a la Holy Alliance...