Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fallen virtue (The Picture That Is Turned Toward the Wall) and tippling ("When you stumbled and fell in the hallway, I knew you'd been drinking again"). But with the turn of the century music publishers drew the line at ballads about sin. When Lyricist Arthur J. Lamb submitted A Bird in a Gilded Cage in 1900, Louis Bernstein refused to take it until the bird was changed from a kept woman into an old man's wife...
Lieut. Charles T. Lamb of Snow Hill, N.C. was wounded in the head and shoulder. After his wounds were dressed he returned to his men and decided to board a Jap sloop in the lagoon. A Jap marine fired through a porthole, missed. Lieut. Lamb tossed a grenade into the Japanese boat, clambered aboard and polished...
...must seek the approval from the Secretary of Agriculture for every limitation it plans in that field. At present farm prices cannot be touched until they reach one hundred ten per cent parity. So far this obstacle has tied OPA's hands so tightly that, although beef, cattle, and lamb are now selling at better than one hundred twenty per cent parity, Henderson has not been able to touch them. Faced with the greatest inflation threat in our history, the Administration still confronts a stone wall in the Department of Agriculture, which holds that prices must go still higher...
...Retail price ceilings have been clapped on lamb, which was exempted last April because it was then so far below parity. When there was not enough beef and pork to go around, housewives took lamb, bid up the price so fast that Leon Henderson thought...
...When lamb went under ceilings, the only outlet left was poultry. Chicken supplies were up 10%, but prices, free from ceilings, skyrocketed. Broilers and fryers are almost 50% above last year...