Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much discretion to change tariffs under the flexible provision. Was it a farmers' tariff, he asked, that would collect $146,000,000 duty on sugar which farmers and everyone else buys, and $103,000,000 duty on all other farm product imports? Why should the duty on reindeer meat be increased from 4? to 6? the pound when in 1928 only 3,198 lb. were imported (from Norway) and the U. S. raised 1,810,000 Ib. (in Alaska)? Why should the duty on canned peas be multiplied by five although in 1928 we imported only 3% of what...
...summer sun sends heat waves simmering from the baked ground, the Doukhobors wear heavy clothes. When a cold wind sweeps down from Alaska they often stalk about stark naked. They live on a communistic plan, denounce capital and marriage laws, are called "Dukes" and "Duchesses," eat no meat, drink no wine, touch no tobacco. Their prime weapon of protest is going naked. Their name means "Spirit Fighters...
...about 50¢ per gallon, whale oil is used mainly for soap production. Although many whalers bring back only oil, others are prepared to render all the byproducts, used chiefly for fertilizer and cattle meal. Thrifty Japanese treat a whale as thoroughly as they do a hog. The meat is sold in tins. In Tokyo, the tips of whale tails are considered the height of delicacy. The Arctic Right Whale, once valued at $10,000 each because of the fine corset stays it yielded, is no longer greatly desired, is practically free to cavort, make love, furiously batter its head against...
...Meat Diet. Arctic Explorers Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsten Anderson lived in the U. S. eating for a whole year nothing but beef muscle, tongue, liver, kidney, brain, fat, bone marrow, veal, lamb, pork, chicken, meat broths, black tea, water. They lived as ordinary city dwellers, except that they carefully walked an hour or so each day and occasionally ran about two and one-half miles. Their health remained excellent in all ways, leading New York's Eugene Floyd Du Bois, W. S. McClellan, H. J. Spencer and E. A. Falk, who studied them, to conclude that "in general white...
With that motto the Morrow Brothers ?cigar stores, washing powder, soap, shoe polish, honey, macaroni, mayonnaise, peanut butter, margarine, pickles, flour, meat, sugar?may be added to the roster of famed self-made business brothers: the two Brothers Behn (Col. Sosthenes and Hernand) masters of I. T. & T.; the two Brothers Giannini (Amadeo Peter and Attilio H.) bankers; the two Brothers Rentschler (Frederick B. and Gordon Sohn) in aviation and aviation financing; the three brothers Starrett (Paul, William Aiken, Ralph) and the two Brothers Chanin (Irwin S. and Henry I.), builders all; the two Brothers Van Sweringen (Mantis James...