Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until the new farms started producing beef and beans and until the new houses were built, Grau had a more immediate problem in keeping wages and living costs (up 275% since prewar) in line. Another poser: how to keep the Communist tail from wagging the Cuban...
Bred strictly for beef, not milk, the cattalo weighs up to 1½ times the average steer. Last year cattalo meat was sold on public markets and nobody knew the difference. Soon the first cattalo will leave the Government ranges to begin populating the prairie corrals. Last week A. S. McLellan, Government animal husbandry expert who has been mating cattalo for 14 years, said happily: "We've got what we were after...
Everything in Sardinia tasted of locust. A sickly, bitterish flavor permeated milk, cheese and beef from cattle that had crunched the pests with their fodder. (Last year several peasants, after losing their crops, then tasting locust for weeks, went...
...must use American credits to finance its steel and bullets economy. Coupled with the loan request came a demand for greater American meat imports. The loan should be turned down, the meat imports curtailed beyond the present quota. Neither Kansas farmers nor Polish peasants (who will never get Argentine beef, spoiling while the Strong Man haggles over price) will object to these measures. To give these measures scope, the food concessions offered Argentina's satellite countries by Peron must be matched with make-do grants of consumers' goods until we can manage to fill all of our food commitments...
When short, square-shouldered Jean-Paul Sartre, the latest lion from France's literary zoo, visited the U.S. last year, he swiftly developed a liking for such American commonplaces as the dry Martini, corned beef hash and chocolate ice cream. He also slowly developed an awed liking for bustling, noisy, overcrowded, squalor-spotted, ill-mannered New York City...