Word: meat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allows himself $5 for lunches-which means, he says, "either I give myself a good feed and nothing to drink, or sandwiches and a pint of wallop [beer]." Mary spends $12 a week for food (50% more than prewar), $4 for local taxes, light and heat. Their 23? meat ration lasts for only two meals, so Mary supplements it with items like mushrooms and canned salmon. This is costly but the Jacksons consider it an investment in good health...
...Chicago, Matchmaker Jack Hurley had another idea; the trouble with boxers was the same thing that was ailing everybody: "They're living too soft, they're eating salads instead of meat an' potatoes -restaurants today cater to women. Kids who could go ten rounds, now barely get through four." The list of alibis grew: automobiles, high wages in factories, the G.I. Bill of Rights (which has lured some pugilistic prospects into colleges). Hard times, all low-spending promoters agree, have always spawned the best fighters...
...Kamen had just signed a seven-year renewal of a 16-year business association. As the salesman of exclusive manufacturing rights for Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters, Kamen has not only planted their likenesses on children's watches, but on 2,000 other products, ranging from meat, breakfast foods and fruit juices to weather vanes, candy, cameras, toys, sweaters, ice cream packages and wallpaper. This year goods bearing the faces of Disney characters will bring in a retail gross of $100 million...
Definition. In Rochester, England, the city food-control committee decided not to prosecute a food vendor when it learned from the Ministry of Food that "meat pies aren't required to contain any meat...
Sick Fledgling. Nevertheless, it took stern measures on President Connelly's part to put Southwest in the black. Like most fledglings, Southwest started out top-heavy with vice presidents, quickly lost money. When Jim Ray, the first boss, quit, Jack Connelly moved in with a meat-ax. He trimmed out most of the top brass, made the survivors double in it. Southwest's only remaining vice president, Operations Chief Ted Mitchell, flies 25 hours a month as a pilot and all pilots refuel their own planes...