Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both cattle and cotton-once the main supports of Texas-are still big business; Texas plantations and ranches yield a third of U.S. cotton, 10% of U.S. beef. Texas has 25% of the nation's sheep, and raises $100 million worth of wheat...
...applicants is exhausted; the AMA feared that the stipend paid to medical schools for students over and above their average enrollment would encourage "wildeat" schools, the administration cut that stipend to one-third of its original size. But the medical group, fearing the bull too much to eat the beef, refuses to accept the bill on the grounds of political interference and the possibility of an over-population of physicians...
...every city with a TIME bureau, Western Union quickly learns your home telephone number. One night a few weeks ago the operator phoned and began reading a long, detailed National Affairs query in a disinterested voice: How's unemployment, beef prices, mink sales? What are Seattle drinking habits, changes in bank deposits, Christmas trade forecasts, egg supplies, man-in-the-street thoughts, apartment rents, house sales? Suddenly she stopped reading and gasped: 'Good lord, what they want to know...
Less than an hour later, the Navy announced that the aircraft carrier Boxer, with a normal complement of 90 planes, and two escorting destroyers, would beef up the 7th Task Fleet based on the Philippines. Next day the Joint Chiefs said they would leave next month for a conference with MacArthur and an inspection trip of U.S. forces in Japan "contemplated for several months...
Over 200 members of the organization ate the roast beef dinner and listened to short speeches by officers of the University. Edward Reynolds '15, administrative vice-president, Edward S. Mason. Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, and Francis M. Rogers, Dean...