Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world-famed steaks. The club also owns the world's greatest collection of meat tycoons' portraits. On its somber, paneled walls hang some 240 sumptuously framed, vigorously extroverted, mostly three-quarter-length portraits of the biggest breeders, killers, packers, meat sellers in the history of U.S. beef...
Bought Off. In Port Chester, N.Y., Evans Ward returned home to find that burglars had made off with jewels worth $3,000, found his Great Dane watchdog contentedly munching a roast of beef from the refrigerator...
...Boss Chester Bowles declared a ration holiday on all meats except beef steaks and beef roasts. Meat stocks were on the increase and cold-storage space was critically short...
...stocks were over 100 million lb., as against a normal spring supply of 40 million lb. Lard stocks were the biggest ever. Total meat production in March was 27% greater than a year ago. There were hints that point values for lamb and mutton, butter, pork products, and some beef cuts would be reduced on May 1 Manhattan's bustling fish market was swamped one day by the arrival of 1.5 million Ib. of fish (normal daily average: 650,000 Ib.). Warehouses and cold-storage plants from coast to coast were bursting with food. People were warned that...
...grains are the broad base upon which rests the entire agricultural economy. Better than 60% of all cultivated U.S. farm land is planted to grains, most of which are fed to livestock and thus converted into meat and dairy products. Without grain there can be no hogs, no prime beef, ho poultry or eggs, no bread, and much less milk...