Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current procession of food merchandising. With Frank J. Hogan, "million-dollar" Washington attorney, as their chief counsel, they reopened one of the most famed Government v. Business suits when they pleaded before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for the right to sell other things than meat...
...told citizens throughout Russia of a British plot to "starve" them. Naming names, Izvestia declared the chief villain to be Andrew Fothergill Esq., a director of the British Union Cold Storage Co.'s plant at Riga, Latvia. He was said to have bribed the Chairman of the Soviet Meat Trust, Professor Alexander Riazanzev, to "disorganize the Soviet food distribution system and promote wholesale famine in Russia." Some Soviet papers said the Meat Chairman had taken a $50,000 bribe, others raised...
...savage affair seemed to be that it offered fresh, significant proof of Ivan Ivanovitch's present pressing concern to fill his belly. If food were even fairly easy to obtain in Russia, popular fury could not thus be roused to national frenzy merely because the No. I Soviet meat man was supposed to have taken a bribe...
...German worker against going to Russia. . . . Our contracts called for six-hour shifts with pay of 140 to 150 rubles ($70 to $75) a month . . . but each man was set so large a daily task that seven or eight hours was required to finish it. ... Food was bad ... no meat .... quarters dirty. . . . Briefly, the cultural and social conditions in Russia cannot satisfy any German worker...
...mascots which he captured in Greenland. Under its shaggy coat, the musk ox has a close covering of woolly fleece which experiments (at the University of Leeds, England) have shown to be excellent for cloth. It dyes and bleaches well, is as soft as cashmere, does not shrink. The meat of the musk ox cannot be distinguished from beef, nor the milk from cow's milk. Neither meat nor milk taste of the strong musk odor which is characteristic of the animal and can be detected several hundred feet away...