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Word: beef (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corned Beef & Roses. All through World War 1 he stayed close to Baruch and learned a thing or two about finances and investing. But in 1918, he quit his job to go "on the bum, mostly because I wanted to find a way to the top." He found it six months later when he met some songwriters in a New York delicatessen. After the patrician manners of Baruch, the tunesmiths looked to him "like a bunch of dumbheads"-until he learned that some of the heads were creating $50,000 worth of songs a year. Again Billy got the jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showmen: The Competitor | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...Conakry has yet to get a taste of the milk from cows at the Russian-built dairy at Ditinn, where mosquito nets muffle the lowing of the herd. A West German slaughterhouse in Conakry kills no more than one steer a month, though its capacity is 40 tons of beef a day. Even the East German printing plant-once humming with Sékou's propaganda-has been reduced to printing labels for imported Chinese Communist beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guinea: A Reason to Worry | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...really arrived when, after opening night, he visited the elegant Biffi Scala, which is to Milano operagoers what Sardi's is to Broadway theater. At his appearance, the chef marched out of the kitchen, cried "Bravissimo, maestro!" and pointed to the latest addition to the menu-a beef fillet smothered in a sauce made of mustard, cognac, sour cream and a heavy dose of pepper. Its name: bistecca Enrico Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Top Face | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...however, and since 1961 their small (pop. 1,600,000) country's G.N.P. has increased by a phenomenal 40%, highest sustained growth in Central America. From the Alliance for Progress has come $30 million for such projects as construction of 350 miles of roads to stimulate dairy and beef production, reduce dependence on cotton. Foreign investors have teamed with local entrepreneurs to produce everything from TV sets to insecticides-and a new class of forward-looking managers, such as Businessman (construction, automobile parts) Enrique Pereira, 42, is emerging to "take the country out of the feudal ages for everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Alianza: Three on the Go | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...rocklike stability (the guarani at 126 to the dollar has not budged in five years), foreign investment has increased steadily. U.S. firms have spent more than $25 million to build meat-packing plants, a bottled-gas facility, a hydroelectric station and an oil refinery. Last year, exports (mainly beef, lumber and cotton) earned $50 million, 23% more than 1963, and this year may rise another 10%. Some $27 million in Alianza aid has gone into agricultural, educational and communications projects, helped push 1,200 miles of paved roads into the rich but unexploited interior. Though the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Alianza: Three on the Go | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

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