Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month): As he has done every Sunday for two years, quiet, kindly. 61-year-old Fritz Mueller, German-born Seattle meat market owner, is delivering a roast of beef to a needy friend. Outside the apartment house, which substantial Citizen Mueller owns, he is stopped by two Federal Alcohol Tax Unit agents in plain clothes-short, swart Edward T. Kelly, 35, onetime Prohibition agent, and frail, bespectacled Leonard ("Relentless") Regan, 59, Croix de guerre War veteran, longtime Prohibition agent. Agent Kelly: "Where are you going with that package?" Mueller explains, asks why he is being followed. A scuffle takes...
...pink that she thought they might be almost edible. Flat-heeled, brown-clad English women all looked like schoolteachers. Under the withering catechism of Author Walter De La Mare, Madame Ichikawa admitted that the only things good about England were "the policeman, cart-horses and Simpson's beef-steak." * The worst example of English bad taste she found in her hotel lavatory, where the toilet-paper was stamped with an advertisement showing "a lovely little child's face." Peering through heavy bars at the British crown in the Tower of London, she wished that she could...
...live one," "Bob" Buck's insurgents called for a unionwide referendum on admitting non-editorial people to the Guild. To that President Broun evoked a simile of his own. He said that voting for C. I. O. affiliation and against industrial unionization was like "ordering corned beef and cabbage, without the corned beef or without the cabbage...
...organizing selling drives to relieve farm surpluses. Last year it started off with a nation-wide campaign in canned peaches, cleaned up the glut in short order. When last year's Drought flooded the market with cattle that could no longer be fed, the chains managed to increase beef sales 34% in the middle of summer, a poor beef season. The same thing was done with turkeys last autumn. From this type of practical relief the chain stores have gained most of their new-found farmer support. Asserting that the big chains can do more in such emergencies than...
Thus the U. S. entered the corn year last October with nearly 800,000,000 bu less than is usually needed to feed the country's hogs, cattle and poultry. (The bulk of the corn crop goes to market as pork beef lamb, duck, turkey, chicken, milk,' eggs' butter.*) To fill their feeding troughs farmers have had to use wheat, oats rye barley, pieced out with Argentine corn 'in the six months through last March corn imports from the Argentine amounted to 42,000,000 bu., more than three times as much as in the same...