Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texas, with oil, beef, cotton and wool to sell, was not blind to the possible profits war would bring. With military aviation booming at San Antonio, Texas was well aware how near war might be. But let it be Europe's war, said Texas, "We can keep out of it . . . Roosevelt better watch his step." But Texas agreed with Franklin Roosevelt on getting ready...
...cartooning forebears. Hogarth set the pace for English caricaturists in the 18th Century, and his followers, Rowlandson, Gillray, the Cruikshanks et al., set the pace for the French. In their work the age of the first three King Georges and the Regency appears unmatched in history for sheer beef-eating, blowzy, bullyragging license. Famous caricatures in the show included Isaac Cruikshank's credited Belly Piece Shop in which various court ladies of marked posterior inflation are being fitted to boot with anterior pads labeled one, two, four, six and nine months...
...jail in Cody last fortnight and shot down two pursuing peace officers (TIME, March 27), lay waiting and watching one day last week. They had sentenced him to six months in jail for shooting a bull elk out of season, threatened him with ten years more for killing a beef cow. Now they wanted him for double murder. A posse of peace officers under Sheriff Frank Blackburn was down below, coming up to get him. Well, they never would. Not for nothing had he sat through two showings of the movie Jesse James. This was his country, the Beartooth Mountains...
...cheap process for making all kinds and grades of beef more tender was announced last week by Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. The process, sponsored and financed by Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., involves "hanging" the meat so that its enzymes may weaken and break-down the fibres and connective tissues that make meat tough. Ordinarily such hanging (to obtain a few very choice steaks) requires four to eight weeks under expensive cold-storage conditions. In the Mellon-Kroger process it is done in a few days at a temperature of 60°, a relative humidity...
Game wardens went out and arrested Earl Durand last week for killing a bull elk out of season. When they found him he was devouring a slab of raw meat from another creature he had just shot illegally, a beef...