Word: meats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luck was that they had landed near an inhabited lighthouse. One Jacques le Tempier, the keeper, told them, during the pauses of his astonishment, that they were on Greenly Island in the narrow Strait of Belle Isle between Labrador and Newfoundland. Hospitably he put on water to boil and meat to cook. The fliers ate in the yellow light of kitchen lamps...
This roundabout suggestion of Federal investigation followed the positive demand made in Manhattan last week by the executive committee of the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers that the Federal Trade Commission study the business methods of all chain store organizations. The butchers accuse the chain stores of misleading advertisements, false bargain sales, short weights and price cutting...
...into formation. And what a fight there will be when one huge phalanx starts stepping on another phalanx's toes! Automobile v. billiard table (go out and play v. stay home and play). Apartment v. baby carriage (a baby cannot be taken for a ride on a roof). Meat v. vegetable (doctors disagree). Radio v. crossword puzzle...
...sometimes I jes' git on to go anywhere, jes' anywhere at all, jes' anywhere but where I is." Little matter where, for this colored travelin' man is of versatile profession. Not yet 35, he has covered 40 states, as cotton picker in Alabama, meat packer in Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling...
Much stress has been laid by the press on the fact that Stefansson and Anderson did not develop scurvy. There was no reason why they should develop scurvy, beri beri, or chilblains. All three vitamins, A, B and C, are present in small amounts in fresh lean meat; liver contains more of them. Other foodstuffs contain even more, it is true, but if the men were allowed all they wanted to eat, they would get enough of the essential vitamins in the beef products to satisfy. The real interest in such an experiment lies in the effect of a meat...