Word: beefier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determination to win. As a boy in the Louisiana marshes, he dropped his bird with the first shot. As a young schoolteacher, he asked for a school in Franklin Parish, where no teacher had lasted a term, and in the requisite number of recesses he beat his beefier charges into docility...
...that prices have yet to reach their peak, will continue to nudge up through 1958 at least. In Kansas City cattle brokers last week were ordering calves for fall delivery and fattening for as much as 33? per lb. v. 25? last fall. Cattlemen eventually will have bigger and beefier herds to sell, and prices will then start to soften. But the price-pushing demand for beef will probably continue to outpace supply for a long while. The Agriculture Department figures that beef production will not rise much until the 19605. Reason: it takes about three years before the gleam...
...prices, however, are only a partial explanation for the great shift in eating habits that turned Americans from pork to beef eating (13.6 lbs. of beef for every eleven of pork). Another reason is the increasing efficiency of cattlemen at breeding and feeding, which has not only turned out beefier animals (in 100 years the average weight of a yearling has been doubled) but also tastier meat with more sirloin, chops and roasts and fewer poor cuts. What the U.S. wants in beef, the U.S. gets, thanks to the great progress in developing new and better breeds of cattle...
...ration of two pounds of soy or cottonseed cake, fortified by molasses for energy, bonemeal for calcium, plus iodized salt and vitamins A and D. Antibiotics are added to increase the rate of gain and disease resistance; Stilbestrol, a female hormone preparation, helps to make the animal gentler and beefier...