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...livestock were reduced to the point where incentive to raise animals was almost destroyed. In 1959's second quarter, meat consumption increased 14% while production slumped 6.3% below 1958. Hastily, Gomulka raised meat prices 25%, but it was too late. Long queues now form daily before near-empty butcher shops, and meatless Mondays have been decreed in Warsaw...
...Ears. The family skated on the edge of poverty. When it moved to Port Huron, Mich., twelve-year-old Tom got a job as a news and candy butcher on the daily train to Detroit. The conductor let him build a tiny laboratory in a corner of the baggage car, and Tom fiddled with test tubes, chemicals and batteries. One morning, his arms full of newspapers, Tom tried to swing on to the departing train. He would have fallen under the wheels if a trainman had not hauled him aboard by the ears. Something "snapped...
...face of the evidence, it was hard to see why Master Butcher Albert Roden, 50, chief defendant in last week's trial of "the King of German Cattle Thieves," had ever turned to rustling at all. For years, his butcher shop on Düsseldorf's Rethelstrasse, manned by his two sons and his bleached-blonde wife, Anna, had been grossing $2,000 a week. But as the trial progressed, a painfully familiar story emerged: in 1951 on a jaunt to nearby Bad Neuenahr Casino, Roden caught the roulette bug, began to drop as much...
...Gunman. Cruising the Autobahnen by daylight in Roden's Mercedes, the butcher and his sidekick spotted likely herds of beef cattle grazing near the highways. Returning by night, Roden would cover his well-cut suit with a butcher's apron, work a steer or heifer out of the herd, and stun it with an airgun slug. Then, slaughtering and quartering the animal in less than half an hour, Roden would stow his kill in the trunk and back seat of the Mercedes and race back to Düsseldorf. There in the morning, he offered his customers fresh...
...North American College gradually became part of the Roman scene. In 1928 North American College students helped ease expanding Rome's shortage of priests by assisting at Masses and blessing Roman buildings on Holy Saturday. Noted one exhausted student priest in his diary: "Blessed six palazzi. Everything possible. Butcher shop. Wine cellar. Sleeping baby. Woman 91 years old. Water-when...