Word: beefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blondie's Big Deal" inserts itself on the same bill, and is noteworthy for a truly obnoxious business man named Mr. Radcliffe and the first post war use of a piece of beef-steak to soothe a blackened eye. If you enjoy the repeated sight of mail men being demolished by an onrushing Dagwood, this is for you. Otherwise, a short call to the respective theaters will enable you to miss...
...noisy as Mrs. Evalyn McLean's, so exclusive as Mrs. Truxtun Beale's, so smart as Mme. Bonnet's at the French embassy. Her menus are adequate but not sumptuous. At the Alben Barkley dinner last week, the 24 guests had turtle soup, filet of beef, peas, browned potatoes, aspic salad, and a rum-and-ice-cream dessert...
...strike" by western cattlemen to keep their beef from market...
...that no firm of experts is available in the area. But food experts do exist and can be persuaded to travel. Third, that machinery for examination exists in the form of House Food Committees and Visiting Committees of mothers. These people, however, are amateurs--they know nothing of slicing beef or buying coffee, they can evaluate appearance and taste, not method. Fourth, that an investigation would be a slap in the face of the Dining Halls Department. But this argument, which was the core of Heaman's case and has also been cited by Dean Bender, is demonstrably invalid. Does...
Stampede. There was also trouble in the cattle market. As grain prices dropped, cattlemen unloaded their stock. Kansas City's stockyard bulged with the biggest shipment of grain-fed cattle in its history-and beef prices tumbled. Choice grades of beef which had brought a top price of $41.60 a hundredweight last summer were offered for as low as $25, only $6.25 above OPA levels. Hogs slumped $1 to $20.50, lowest since October 1946. But at the start of this week, both livestock and grains firmed...