Word: lard
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...Lard. Big Mike had been in bad odor ever since his election last November; people just wouldn't take the trouble to understand him. He had gotten elected, for instance, by running on the Democratic ticket as a former University of Michigan football player, and a patriot who had served 6½ years in the Marine Corps. Then it developed that he had never been to Michigan, had been a marine only 23 months (before Pearl Harbor), and had been parted from the service after three courts-martial...
Bergman will play the unglamorous part of a Nordic woman trapped in an Italian D.P. camp. The only way she can escape is by marrying a Sicilian fisherman. At his island home she finds the people strange and hostile, the fisherman's life lard and grubby. She tries unsuccessfully to escape, becomes pregnant, attempts suicide...
...Italy and Greece), the end of the "dole" phase was in sight and the productive phase had begun in earnest. Western Germany was smiling and flexing its muscles as a result of strengthened currency and tempting food to buy with it-Italian tomatoes, Mexican canned beef, Portuguese beans, U.S. lard. Production was up 20% in the last two months; Ruhr iron & steel set postwar records. In Frankfurt, a mechanic named Johann Schaeffer broke his three-year habit of saying "schreck-lich" (frightful) when anyone asked him how things were going. Last week Johann was saying: "Today, yes, we can count...
...memo to the press" indicated that the Government was about to buy large quantities of lard for export. The memo had been put on a table with a pile of official releases, in the Department of Agriculture's Washington newsroom, one day last fall. But there was something phony about it: it had none of the usual headings or signatures. When newsmen questioned its authorship, the Department began investigating and finally traced it to a commodity trader named Ralph W. Moore, onetime lobbyist and crony of Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas, who also likes to speculate in commodities...
Trader Moore frankly confessed that he had written the memo, but said that his purpose was merely to call attention to "inconsistencies in Government lard purchase policies." The Department's Commodity Exchange Authority thought differently. Last week it charged that the memo was a trick of Moore's to spread false reports and boost prices for his own profit. At the time the memo was issued, said CEA, Moore was "long" (i.e., betting that the price would go up) on 1,900,000 pounds of lard futures. In the preceding 21 months, added CEA, Moore had made...