Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caught smuggling themselves into, of all places, Germany. At Munich's Camp Fohrenwald, last remaining German D.P. camp for stateless Jews (where the feeling against the returners was high), Joda told his story: "When we got to Israel, I was told I was too old to be a butcher any more. I was put to work in a quarry. We were not beaten or mistreated, but otherwise things were not too different from life in the [concentration] camps...
...that meat is 14?." Their anger touched one of the most sensitive nerves in U.S. politics. In Washington a congressional committee responded by proposing price supports for cattle while the Department of Agriculture is already investigating the spread between the price of beef on the hoof and on the butcher's meathook...
...after he has bought the meat. If the steer is "choice," he will make a 2?-a-lb. profit; if it grades "good," he may lose about 4?. But even the carcass (shrunk to 653 Ibs. in transit) is not all salable at the 42½? a Ib. the butcher pays for it. Two-thirds is hamburger and other low-priced meats that the butcher must sell for less than his cost; nearly one-fourth is bone, suet and fat, which must be stripped from the carcass, and brings the butcher little when sold. Only 260 Ibs. are steaks...
...business grew into the present Mercantile National Bank, one of Dallas' Big Three. Although Bob became a bank president and a local big shot, he made his reputation as a supersalesman. "Everybody's got to sell," he says. "Preacher's got to sell his sermon, butcher's got to sell his beefsteak." And Thornton had to sell Dallas...
...oncoming car, then began to dismount. A tough professional soldier, Calais-born Robert King, who is physical training instructor of the Sultan's guards, leaped on the running board of the Ford, grabbed ben Abdallah by the neck and wrestled him from the car. Ben Abdallah pulled a butcher knife from his djellaba and sliced King's shoulder, while the driverless roadster plowed on into the Sultan's horse, breaking one of its legs (the animal was later destroyed). Sten gunners of the imperial guard fired a burst at ben Abdallah; he quivered, then died. Sultan Arafa...