Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inveterate collectors of useless information may occasionally turn up the fact that $5,897-38 was spent to send the Marine Band to the G. A. R. encampment; or that an unexpended appropriation of $5,004.25 was reappropriated to buy land for landless California Indians. But the meat of this fat volume is its introduction written by the President and dispatched to Congress as his annual Budget Message...
...kosher meat products sold in New York City are union-made-except W. & I. Blumenthal's "Ukor" brand. Among methods used by the Butchers' Union to bring pressure on the company was picketing of retailers handling Ukor products. Among the retailers picketed was an East Side delicatessen shop owned by one Isaac Goldfinger. Mr. Goldfinger's staff consisted solely of Mr. Goldfinger. and after pickets with English and Yiddish placards had cut his trade by an estimated $100 per week he hied himself to court, won an injunction. The union promptly took the case...
...underwear, but Miss Skinner almost atones for these commonplaces by the varied distinction of her acting. Not only does she play Edna at crucial stages of her life, she impersonates seven other characters besides. Broadly caricatured and really funny is her dowager Dolly McElroy, millionaire wife of a Chicago meat packer, who welcomes Edna's husband into pre-War society among potted palms and ottomans. As Edna's sister on the deck of the doomed excursion boat, Eastland, Miss Skinner is at her best. Although the only stage effect is a swaying rail for her to clutch...
...Actually he sells many alive to other breeders, some as far away as Czechoslovakia. A pair of black muskrats used to bring him $50, twice as much as he gets now. Almost all the skinned muskrats are sold to markets in Baltimore and Philadelphia. Sometimes the meat is retailed as "marsh rabbit," sometimes as terrapin...
...hard to prevent, it is a well-known fact that such poisonous chemicals as lead arsenate and sulphur dioxide are widely used to preserve fruits, the former to protect apples from the ravages of insects, and the latter in the drying of certain fruits such as apricots and plums. Meat is also treated chemically to preserve its red color. Many may applaud these modern methods of saving money employed by producers and middlemen, and may marvel at the wonders of modern science, but no one would think of deliberately and knowingly placing these preservative poisons into his digestive system. Nevertheless...