Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rained frogs, thousands of little green frogs, in Massachusetts-or so said J. P. Valliere of New Bedford, who said he saw them. A Spokane butcher displayed a sign: "Choice Meats: The Management Will Accept Cash, First Mortgages, Bonds and Good Jewelry." Walter W. Brown of Onawa, Iowa lopped off five toes in his lawn mower, found four, had a doctor sew them on again. Lifeguards at Chicago's Oak Street Beach put on shocking-pink trunks to distinguish them from ordinary bathers...
Trouble Compounded. For all that Manhattan Butcher Anthony D'Amelio angrily boarded up his shop and Boston Dealer Malcolm McCabe called meat packers "a bunch of robbers," there was no effective buyers' strike against the stratospheric prices. Along with higher wages, consumers had more liquid assets than ever to spend ($130 billion in Government bonds and bank accounts alone, according to the latest Federal Reserve Board survey), and were spending them. In place of an expected midsummer lull, retailers reported that the dollar volume of sales across the U.S. last week was up 6% to 10% over last...
Ever since war's end the government had intended to lift the embargo (imposed in 1942 at President Roosevelt's request) as soon as it could be done without upsetting the butcher's cart. That day never came. First, the embargo had to be kept to insure a full domestic supply while heavy shipments went to Britain. When it looked as though the British shipments would taper off, there was always some technical reason for keeping the embargo a little longer...
...crowded feet (scaled roughly at a foot to a mile), the scroll follows a meandering road downriver, from dawn to dusk. In its 33-mile course, the road enters the gates of the high-walled Sung capital Pien-liang, and becomes a city street lined with pawnshops, paint shops, butcher shops, restaurants, lute shops, wineshops, needle shops, antique shops...
Died. General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, 56, German tank expert who earned the title of "Butcher of Guernica" in the Spanish Civil War, was Rommel's onetime second-in-command of the Afrika Korps and achieved high rank on the Yugoslavs' war-criminal list for his massacres in Serbia; of a heart attack; in Söcking, Germany...