Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kirkland's food is equalled only by the four other Houses who are fed from the central kitchen, and surpassed only by Adam's homecooking...
...headed. The other was labor, especially what he dubbed the descamisados (literally: shirtless ones), whose favor he had won (by wage boosts, social benefits, etc.) in a shrewdly realistic move to offset any fickleness among his army pals. In the past month many Argentines had noted that the army, fed up with mounting inflation and the politicking of Perón's wife Eva, had ceased to be the prop it once was. When the third anniversary of Perón's popular election fell last week, it became equally clear that Perón's labor...
...caught best the cat's agile and delicate movement and velvet-coated strength. British Cinemactor and Cat-lover James Mason had designed some prints showing impressionistic Siamese marching across rayon textile. American Sculptor William Zorach and French Painter Pablo Picasso contributed masterly and unsentimental portraits of sleek, well-fed soth Century tabbies...
...play's central figure is Charlie Castle (John Garfield), onetime idealist and now such a whopping movie star that he is being asked to sign a 14-year contract. Fed up, Charlie wants to leave Hollywood; his wife (Nancy Kelly) is so fed up she has left him. But Charlie is being blackmailed by his bosses. A while back he had run over and killed a child, and he had been saved from prison by the studio's wiliest finagling. Now, when he balks, the studio threatens jail. Later, when things get messier, the studio doesn...
Stampede. There was also trouble in the cattle market. As grain prices dropped, cattlemen unloaded their stock. Kansas City's stockyard bulged with the biggest shipment of grain-fed cattle in its history-and beef prices tumbled. Choice grades of beef which had brought a top price of $41.60 a hundredweight last summer were offered for as low as $25, only $6.25 above OPA levels. Hogs slumped $1 to $20.50, lowest since October 1946. But at the start of this week, both livestock and grains firmed...