Word: meat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crowded Freezers. Mrs. Goodhue had the deep freeze packed with meat (one hog, half a baby beef, and 15 or 20 chickens) but she was still a little put out about the time she didn't get some pork chops thawed out soon enough for lunch and had to buy eight for $1.70 at the country store. "That just about broke my heart," said Mrs. Goodhue. "They'll tell you that the farmers are getting good prices for their hogs. But there's an awful difference between what we get and what we pay over the counter...
...Meat & Drink. Shrewd, hard-bitten Bill Boyle believes in machine politics and the everlasting value of the faithful ward-heeler. He was a precinct captain himself before he could vote, rose through the ranks of the Boss Pendergast machine to acting director of police (TIME, Feb. 21). In 1941, Senator Harry Truman appointed him to the counsel staff of his war investigating committee, later made him his personal secretary. Last year Boyle plotted Truman's whistle-stop campaign, insisted on going after what proved to be the decisive farm and labor vote. An Irish-Catholic politician...
Boyle was sure the Dixiecrats could be brought into line. Said he: "Recognition is a politician's meat & drink. If they don't get it, they are nothing. I quoted Abraham Lincoln in my speech: 'I will go along with a man as long as he is going in my direction.' That's an invitation for sinners to march down the aisle. Those who don't march will be suffocated, as far as the National Committee is concerned...
...producing facilities were completely dominated by Alcoa, Reynolds Metals and-Henry Kaiser's Permanente Metals; that the Big Four tobacco companies-American Tobacco, Liggett & Myers, R. J. Reynolds, P. Lorillard-owned 87.8% of all the industry's manufacturing facilities; that Armour and Swift controlled 54.7% of U.S. meat-packing capital assets...
...Meat. Chapman was captured twice but escaped each time. His weight dropped from 170 Ibs. to 90. He learned to eat rat meat and think it tasty; once, he, even took in stride the information that he had just eaten roast Jap. He was frequently near death from malaria, and he left the jungle in August 1945, with a complexion the color of his jungle-green uniform. But before the month was over, he volunteered to go back on a military mission and was parachuted back into his "green hell" for another two months...