Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starlets-are hard put to compete with the high pay and patriotic glamor of war jobs. The first conductorettes on Los Angeles streetcars looked as though they had come right out of a nightclub chorus line. There is hardly any job-truck driver, mechanic, cobbler, oyster shucker, engineer, bartender, butcher, baker or candlestick maker-that women cannot get if they want them and more & more women are getting them...
...Priorities" is a synthesis of musical comedy, circus, and burlesque. It begins with a three ring splurge of roller skating and ends up with Willie Howard's artistic interpretation of burlesque's favorite chestnut, the butcher boy skit. Lou Holtz, as a master of ceremonies, supplies, among other things, the only element of continuity to what might have been called "Vaudeville Incorporated." There's also a kick chorus, misnamed "The Versailles Beauties," who lamely present a tedious routine, but they don't appear often enough to do much harm...
...using the same starting lineup that was so successful against the Jumbos last Saturday. But aside from Giles, Dixon and Keene, there are other men who were lights in the dark in the midweek humiliation, and thus stand an excellent chance to see action. Herb Allan and Bill Butcher, both halfbacks, and Lou Vorhaus, another forward, will be on hand to bolster the Crimson attack...
Goalie, Thompson; fullback, Harbisin; fullback, Killam; halfback, Slingerland; halfback, Clarke; halfback, Butcher; outside forward, Calhoun; inside forward, Drake; center forward, Murphy; inside forward, Gifford; outside forward, Burman...
...knotty problems were whirling about OPA offices, keeping the enforcement staff in a tizzy. Swift's price ceiling for beef turned out to be 21½ ? a pound; Wilson's, 21?; Armour's, 20½ ?. Obviously such a disparity could not last long, for no butcher will go on indefinitely paying Swift 1? a pound more than Armour just because that differential happened to exist on the date meat prices were frozen last March...