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...Clark of the turbulent young C.I.O. meat packers' union had also called out his men. The cattle-pens of Chicago were nearly empty. The big four's refrigerators were bare of their hams and sides of beef, once the envy of a hungry world. Housewives were stampeding butcher shops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Quiet Week | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Died. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes (Roger John Brownlow Keyes), 73, doughty, fire-&-ice British naval hero of the famed World War I raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend, organizer of World War II's "butcher-and-bolt" Commandos (his son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, was killed in a Commando raid on Rommel's African HQ); of cardiac asthma; at his estate in Buckingham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 7, 1946 | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...Manhattan, a hard-pressed butcher set out a sign: "What Have I Got? I Got Cow's Feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1945 | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Cutup. In Roscoe, Calif., John Honeycutt hacked his wife to pieces with a butcher knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 3, 1945 | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...addition to oil, Anglo-Norwegian whalers hunting near their home ports hope to bring back whale meat for butcher shops, boast that a new method of quick freezing makes it as tender and tasty as beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thar She Blows! | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

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