Word: lambe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston, which needs a million pounds of meat a day, was getting only a fifth that much. On Thursday three carloads arrived instead of 75. People who wanted beans had to eat them without pork. People who wanted meat had to take lamb or poultry and pay the price. There were meat shortages also in Providence, Philadelphia, Cleveland, many another large city. Even in Chicago, meat center of the nation, some 50 independent butchers had too little stock to open their doors...
...right off the bat Food Boss Wickard called the croquettes excellent, the stew very good, ordered the scientists back to their laboratories to do the same for mutton & lamb...
Beef and veal production was up 20% in the January-April period, but the full year's output may not show as big a gain. Lamb and mutton marketings show almost no gain. Main reason: sheep are finicky creatures, and nasty weather "impaired" the spring lamb crop. Chicken-ranch owners, meanwhile, have boosted production...
Eden took Molotov under a large black umbrella and led the way to nearby motor cars. The Mirror photographer got pictures of the great occasion which were "officially confiscated." Police officials regarded the lamb story with strong suspicion, grilled the photographer and conducted a discreet inquiry of the entire Mirror staff...
...there are enough farm workers, if transportation is available. There is no prospect now of the 1917-18 meatless, wheatless, or otherless days; the total food supply is expected to be the largest ever; plenty of wheat, fresh fruits and vegetables, fluid milk and cream, chicken, eggs, beef, lamb & mutton. And the United Nations have got more than 5,000,000,000 lb. of our food since April 1941, at a paper cost...