Word: meat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Circumstantial evidence, backed by tests, indicates that through a "unique" combination of temperature and time, staphylococcus bacteria from the slicer transferred to the meat and produced a poisonous toxin, Moore explained...
...Bazaars were crowded as prices dropped. In preparation for the Chinese New Year (Jan. 29), firecracker makers started working around the clock catching up on time lost during the siege when their wares were banned. Said a shopkeeper on Flower Street: "Now we can have plenty of chaotse (steamed meat dumplings) on New Year's night. If peace had not come, flour would have been too expensive...
Softening Spots. Further drops in the cost of living promised to ease the wage pressure still more. The average retail drop in the price of meat since last September's peak, said the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers, was estimated between 15 and 20%. Packers were keeping their fingers crossed on whether the drop would continue, but they thought that meat would be in "pretty good supply for the rest of the winter," thanks to the bumper corn crop...
...Religious Front," which campaigns (with little hope of success) for a state based on the law of the Torah. Two of its chief planks: strict observance of the Sabbath, and a ban on importation of nonkosher meat...
Bobby Driscoll is a rarity among child actors: when relaxed, he is an attractive kid, and when called upon to act, he is not at all repellent. His battle to save his black sheep from the meat block and get it to the county fair might have become moderately tiresome, except for timely interruptions for ballad and cartoon sequences. Beulah Bondi, a Bible-quoting grandmother, and the late Harry Carey, as a kindly farmer, fit almost perfectly into the Hollywood concept of uppercrust hillbillydom...