Word: lambs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City Revels (RKO-Radio) is a fancy patch of cinematic needlework stretched over the hoop-la idea of a songwriter who works only in his sleep. Fanciest flight: frantic Song Thieves Jack Oakie and Milton Berle trying to cure Sleep-writer Bob Burns's insomnia by tossing a lamb back & forth across his bed. shortcutting by having him start counting at 1,000. Current & Choice...
CHARLES ROLLINSON LAMB Cresskill...
...irked U. S. housewives all year-meat prices were at a six-year peak (TIME, Oct. 4 & 18). By mid-January the U. S. Department of Agriculture recorded retail meat prices way down from their peaks of September 30-sirloin steak from 48? to 32? a lb., leg of lamb from 29? to 26?, pork chops from 42? to 29?, veal cutlets from 43? to 39?. By last week wholesale cattle prices were off 43% since September 30, lambs 37%, hogs 37% and cattlemen were marketing their herds at losses. In the offing loomed a grave agricultural problem, for meat...
...many localities the beef campaigns and others which followed had a long-range effect not originally foreseen. In a campaign for lamb, prices continued to rise for six months after the promotion slopped. In pushing grapefruit, one chain company developed so many new customers that its sales rose 1,695% m rural territories. A new market was opened up. One farm woman wrote: "I boiled the thing [grapefruit] for three hours and a half and it was just as tough afterward as when I began...
...lion and the lamb of U. S. labor had hardly started to talk before they were interrupted by Tennessee's Senator George Berry, whose unexpected arrival was apparently prompted in no small measure by the presence of so many reporters and photographers. He got no farther than the anteroom, however, for the facial reaction of the conferring labor-men was enough to convince their aides that the Senator, though still the head of the A. F. of L.'s pressmen's union, was not welcome in the inner sanctum, and he was soon sent...