Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Silver Star himself), he performed one of the routine but important duties of every good commander. He inspected his men's kitchens-in this case, flyproof affairs which the troops had devised from airplane crates and wire netting. Then the General had a Sunday dinner of beef stew with fresh carrots and potatoes, cake and iced...
Officials yesterday refused to reveal the names of the martyrs who gave up all colored vegetables--carrots, string beans, peas--except beets, and who voluntarily went without beef, chicken, and ham in the interests of science. So rigorous was the test that they would not have milk, butter, or eggs for half a year...
...even to lick this spring, but they are not grumbling because they know that Food Minister Lord Woolton is doing about everything possible with the supplies available. Not only is the meat ration down to 25? per week per person, but 3? of it must be taken in corned beef, thus lessening the possibilities for stews from weekly roasts. Offals (liver, brains, kidneys, etc.) are still unrationed, but most of the supplies have been sent to the canning companies. Rarely now can British families sit down to a dinner of their beloved steak & kidney pie. U.S. canned meats, though moderately...
...famed St. Mark's Square were almost gone. Roman first-aid centers "cured" women and children who fainted in the streets by giving them bowls of hot soup. Donkeys were slaughtered and sold as "milk-fed veal." Prize buffaloes from the Pontine Marshes turned up as "high-grade beef." Bread was scarce, fats almost nonexistent. Vegetables were being exported to Germany to pay for coal. But coal was so scarce that convalescent soldiers shivered miserably in Turin's Royal Hospital of Charity...
...Worked-out cotton fields, turned to pasture, will yield 149 Ib. of beef per acre. But if nearby streams are dammed with earth and the fields shallowly flooded, they will yield as much as 600 Ib. of catfish, bass or bream, at a much lower cost per acre. So announced the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station last week. Like fields, the ponds must be strewn with commercial fertilizer (100 Ib. per acre), so that aquatic plants will flourish...