Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is all that Italy can pay. Representative Mills turned to the opposition with the declaration that the average income of the Italians is less than one-sixth of the income of the average American; whereas the average American spends $50 to $55 a year for meat, the average Italian spends lesa than $46 a year for all his food. The total national income of Italy is 100 billion lire, which amounts to about 26ining 9e Ways and Means Committee because he was not elected to the 67th Congress (1921-23). Mr. Rainey has not liked the first two important...
...herd from a few score head to over 11,000. In Buffalo Park, at Wainwright, Alberta, some of the shaggy loggerheads were experimentally crossed with Angus, Hereford and shorthorn cows. The resultant "cattaloes" grew up thick-hided, long-haired, with all the hardiness of buffaloes and most of the meat of cattle. They seemed excellent range animals for the vast northern territories (which Arctic explorers have long been recommending for stock-raising), as they can be left to graze all winter without prepared food or shelter. Asians have long crossed the yak, a draft animal, with cattle, getting beef even...
...long ago (reported the Popular Science Monthly last fortnight) 25 Canadian families sat down in their respective abodes to dine upon a viand new and strange. An unknown meat had been sent with the compliments of the Government, which requested only that each family relate the sensations experienced by its collective palate...
Nine families could not stomach the exotic roast. Sixteen families reported having enjoyed their meal to the utmost. The Government was elated. "That was a tough old bull," said officials. "All would have relished tender calf meat." Experiments continued upon...
...desire to have a look at his daughter. In the end respectability made him hers through the romance of father love, and the accident of discovering a defaulter, which set him high in Beaumont. Spiced with whimsicality and paradox, the book cannot wholly disguise the musty flavor of its meat...