Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Churches were found closed for want of money to pay a parson. Public houses were boarded up for lack of pennies to buy beer. Miners interviewed repeatedly, said that throughout the Rhondda mining area most families can buy meat not oftener than once a week, seeming to live principally on bread, margarine, tea. At the local Teachers Union an instructor allowed himself to be anonymously quoted thus...
...minimize the fat, mainly because this prosperous country demands high-priced pork. . . . Also, the growing use of vegetable fats, which are sold more cheaply than it is possible to sell hog fat, means that the hog today is primarily a meat animal...
...Little Louisiana Lottery. Then he ran into a garrulous bartender named H. H. Tammen and they bought a newspaper, the Denver Post, with which they fattened the gambler's wad and extended the bartender's ingenuity. They had a circus, too (Sells-Floto). But, for raw meat and dripping ballyhoo, the Denver Post was a circus in itself. The reputation of Mr. Bonfils was to use the hatchet, but not to bury...
Sacred Lunatic easily acquired a sufficient smattering of Rampolese, quickly learned to relish succulent human meat. The Islanders prided themselves that they were not cannibalistic, but merely appreciative of the "gifts of the goddess"-bodies of criminals. Moral standards were unusually high, for the monotonous fish-diet made every man the more eager to detect a gustable neighbor's mortal infringement...
Childs Co. (reluctant meat-servers): $289,326 (deficit), as against $125,801 (profit...