Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through repeated blood tests it was found that, in spite of intense heat, the character of the blood remained fairly constant. The party was able to dispel the notion that cold water and meat are injurious in hot climates...
...seemed to relish only two things, oysters and sweet puddings, of which he eats as much as his doctors let him. In Edward of Wales farsighted Chummy sees a future King-Emperor even less likely to appreciate his art. The favorite dinner of H. R. H. consists of cold meat & whiskey-soda-a menu sometimes expanded by cabbage or some other vegetable, always boiled. Unlike his fat, great-eating grandfather, and unlike his father, Edward of Wales detests sweets. But both George V and his son prefer whiskey-sodas with their meals to Edward VII's champagne...
Worse still, the price of rationed food was drastically upped. Egg prices rose 250% overnight. Meat prices almost doubled. This winter the only foreigners in Russia to eat well will be the diplomatic corps, privileged to bring in food duty free under diplomatic seal...
...Post: "shame," "disgrace," "bandit," "brigand." "lawless," "bunco," "scaly monstrosity," "mountebank," "... a blackmailing, blackguarding, nauseaus (sic) sheet which stinks to high heaven and which is the shame of newspapermen the world over." But neither friend nor foe could call Publisher Bonfils "sensitive." Journalistic rough-&-tumble was his particular meat. He was an able name-caller himself. The battle of the Post and Rocky Mountain News was costly to both combatants. Because the Scripps-Howard morning News started an evening edition to compete with the Post, Bonfils brought out a morning Post to harass the News. For two years they tried...
Each & every U. S. citizen last year swallowed 133.2 lb. of meat inclusive of goats. Since the end of the beefsteak era meat consumption has tended to decrease. Pork has supplanted beef as the prime item of U. S. meat diet. Highest per capita meat consumption was in the panic year 1907?155.1 lb. As Food Administrator, Herbert Clark Hoover brought it down to 120 lb. in 1917, but it had climbed back to 149.7 lb. by 1924. Theories of balanced rations and a trend to vegetarianism have since cut it down sharply...