Word: hams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright. Only help for them is to keep prices down; otherwise they too will become a charge on the Government. On the very day on which the first Nutrition Conference opened, the President signed the new crop-loan bill, which will tend to raise prices of flour, pork chops, ham, bacon, other vital foods...
Only one incident afforded anything like a light moment during the long-drawn-out wrangling. Among Good Housekeeping-advertised (but not seal-approved) products introduced at the hearings was a Polish ham. Bursting open, it exuded such gamy odors that the court had to be cleared...
...first time since smart Columbia Broadcasting President William S. Paley donated an annual trophy to be awarded to the outstanding U.S. radio amateur, 1940's Oscar was awarded last week to a ham who had not shown himself a hero in some great disaster...
Democrats promptly joined with Republicans and Isolationists in ripping his bill to shreds. Missouri's Short wanted to know who would "assume the responsibility for the robbery and the rape and murder that might be committed." New York's Isolationist Ham Fish offered an amendment (defeated) to provide "dugouts, tin helmets, asbestos suits and gas masks for the members of Congress, the Chief Executive, and the Justices of the Supreme Court . . . air-raid sirens on all public buildings except the Department of Labor. ..." Well over a third of the chamber kept out of the discussion and the voting...
...most exciting singles contests was between Homer Peabody and S. Ham at the number four spot. Ham finally won in three long sets 5-7, 6-4, 9-7. In the three doubles affairs, Princeton threew in fresh teams to defeat the rapidly tiring Crimson players...