Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Lacey ponder other Agriculture Department figures; 54% of the total U.S. farm increase in milk production in 1942 over 1941 came from the 500,000 lowest-income farms, 5% of the increase in pork, 10% eggs, 32% beef, 19% chickens...
...Next to frankfurters the soldier likes baked ham. Then roast veal and sausage. Fifteen per cent of all roast beef, bacon and cold cuts goes back to the kitchen, 25% of liver. Never strong for green vegetables, the soldier especially detests kale. He likes baked potatoes next to mashed...
...solution: "I gotta make a living and I gotta keep my customers satisfied. Every morning I make the rounds of four black-market outfits. In one I say to the guy 'I'll bet you $25 you can't get me a side of beef.' I lay the cash on the table and I always lose the bet. What the hell would...
...before and a shortage-sharpened yen for meat, U.S. citizens pay without complaint far over ceiling prices. Los Angeles aircraft workers pay $1.95 a Ib. for steak, then display their prize like a Prohibition college boy showing off his flask; Manhattan housewives happily fork over 80? a Ib. for beef liver...
Through the raid Berlin's great antiaircraft defenses thundered in the night. But strong as they still were, they had apparently been reduced in strength to beef up the defenses of the Ruhr. Also it seemed that the gunners were not alertly on the job. Britain lost only one bomber. When the R.A.F. crews gathered, teacups in hand, for their interrogations back home, they agreed that few night fighters had come up to meet them...