Word: lambe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more meat for his platter. Last week the Institute of American Meat Packers announced that total meat consumption was up for the first half of the third Depression year. Though less beef and veal went on the U. S. platter, pork consumption was up 152,000,000 lb., lamb up 13,000,000 lb. Last year's meat consumption was above 1930 but still below 1929. The Institute's figures cover the Federally inspected two-thirds of the industry's meat. The other one-third is slaughtered at small abattoirs not engaged in interstate trade, or at local butcher shops...
...marriage of John Gilbert and his rew leading lady, Virginia Bruce, is called imminent. Says he: "God was a lamb when he gave me Virginia." He enrages the technical sound men by taking everywhere a small noisy dachshund, saying the dog is "in my hair." Observers last week thought Downstairs had brought Gilbert back to the top of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's stable of stars...
...neither Dr. Crile's nor his relatives' money was legally touchable through the Clinic. The Cleveland Clinic is a foundation protected by only $30,000 liability insurance. Claimants for damages might easily wreck the institution, but claimants could squeeze no money from empty corridors. Attorney Paul Lamb, astute pleader persuaded the litigants to settle, and the court approved, on a basis which involved the value of life and the cost of dependency in Depression. The $1,500,000 claims were settled for $167,000, of which the Clinic raised $137.000 from its own funds, insurance contributed...
...heard that the investigation was ending (see col. 3). The final session was marked by the appearance of two women who lost money in the market. The Senators listened to Miss Grace Van Braam Roberts of Highland, N. Y., "farmer," suffraget and clubwoman. She was no ordinary sheared, bleating lamb but a shrewd woman who was once a very active trader, whose father was the late Charles Henry Roberts, president of the Carolina Central Railroad and whose brother is Owen F. Roberts, former independent member of the New York Stock Exchange. The bone of her contention was that...
William Van Alen (Chrysler Building) showed a 4½ Ib. black bass and William F. Lamb (Empire State) a collection of China pigs...