Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Livestock feeders had been worried over the end of ceilings, and even more because many grain growers refused to sell before prices went up. By week's end, feeders felt better; stored grain was coming into the market, and prices for beef cattle were rising enough to absorb higher feed costs. The prairies stirred under the dangerous tonic of rising prices...
Danger Is Relative. The morning of a game, when the squad gathers around the training table at 10:30 for their pre-game lunch, Chappuis manages to swallow a cupful of beef broth, but he only nibbles at the filet mignon put before him. Football is still a deadly serious and unnerving game to him, even though he has faced, as have many players on 1947 squads, worse menaces than an onrushing tackier. On Christmas Day, 1944, Sergeant Chappuis rode in a B-25 as radioman and gunner, on his first mission. The target: a railroad bridge in Italy...
...Taft-Hartley law superseded all previous NLRB decisions on foremen; no employer was now required to bargain with them. Bolstering this was a dockside opinion from Harry Lundeberg, boss of the A.F.L. sailors' union on the Pacific, and an enemy of Bridges. Said Lundeberg: "This is a phony beef...
...told his men to ignore the C.I.O. pickets, and promised to supply crews to four struck Luckenbach ships. Some C.I.O. unionists apparently thought it was a phony beef also. When the Matson Navigation Co. rerouted its Matsonia from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Bridges tried to stop her from sailing to Honolulu. But members of the C.I.O. stewards' union loaded the passengers' baggage and the Matsonia, manned by Lundeberg's unionists...
...didn't find roast beef on your tray yesterday, don't talk about high prices, don't mumble about the lack of meat, but take your troubles to a subterranean chamber under Eliot House where Miss Frances Hinckley, beside two huge ovens, plots College menus three weeks in advance...