Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already Ganso Azul has brought new life into the Peruvian Montana. Indians who never saw a lamp come with bottles and even hollow canes for kerosene. With wicks stuffed into tin cans, they now have lights in their huts. A balanced diet of vegetables, fruit, beef, pork and chicken for the company's 250 employes has by example encouraged better living habits among other Indians...
...shrunken body, doctors gave him large amounts of vitamin B complex, beef essence, apple pulp, plasma. Sulfa drugs and penicillin helped clean out the small army of virulent germs. Now Thin-Man Goddard has pushed his weight up to 121 Ibs. (normal: 156), and can walk a little. In two or three months, perhaps, he may leave the hospital...
...paints when the Japs swarmed in. He retreated with his two Balinese wives to a mountaintop chalet overlooking an amphitheater of verdant, terraced rice fields. When he needed money he sold a friend's watch. Neighbors brought him rice and vegetables, and local rajahs sent him gifts of beef and pork. Unmolested by the Japs, Meier painted 150 canvases. On the side he grew tobacco, which one of his wives rolled into miniature cigars. He also made rice wine and a fiery plum cordial he called "swisky-the drink of Swiss mountain sailors...
Empty Larder. President Lewis Clark of the turbulent young C.I.O. meat packers' union had also called out his men. The cattle-pens of Chicago were nearly empty. The big four's refrigerators were bare of their hams and sides of beef, once the envy of a hungry world. Housewives were stampeding butcher shops...
Party for Prestes. Marking their burgeoning strength, the Communists last week staged a gay party. The occasion: the birthday of their senator-elect leader, smoldering, classic-browed Luis Carlos Prestes. At Communist headquarters by Rio's tree-shaded Flamengo Beach, party members popped firecrackers, chewed gristly, barbecued beef, drank guaraná, a soft drink. While Prestes blew out the 48 candles on a 7-ft., 226-lb. cake decorated with a red hammer & sickle, guests sambaed to a socially significant new tune, "Milk, Meat & Bread...