Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next noon Agustin Justo and 73 others lunched officially at the U. S. Embassy and Franklin Roosevelt made them a practical little speech assuring them that he would do his best to have modified the quarantine restriction which keeps Argentine meat out of the U. S.* By way of gratitude for this friendliness, the Argentine Co-Operative of Meat Producers sent the carcasses of six swine and six lambs, also six beef tenderloins and a choice assortment of veal kidneys down to the Indianapolis as a parting gift...
...Apparently the Government militia still is being fed adequately, but only a few crumbs are left from their mess table for the civilian populace. Potatoes, eggs and meat are rare delicacies that most civilians have not tasted for many weeks...
...dadaists will pull their hair out in public." Neither event occurred, nor did such promised attractions as the first performance of Symphonic Vaseline by Tristan Tzara to be played by an orchestra of 20. Instead, young conservatives in the pit turned dadaists themselves, hurled tomatoes and hunks of raw meat (procured from a nearby butcher shop) at the stage while the dadaists volleyed back the missiles with delighted gusto. The owner of the building, Mme Gaveau, shouted furious protests from...
...Meat packing...
...avoided? The solution is not a simple one. In past years, when the route of food from producer to consumer was direct and the food passed through few hands, little difficulty was encountered. Now our milk comes from Vermont, and passes through a dozen processes before we drink it. Meat comes from Chicago, fresh vegetables from South Carolina and Texas, fruit from Florida, Oregon, or the tropics. How is it possible to keep all this food clean and fresh and pure? The Federal Government aids by an elaborate system of inspection of inter-state shipment of food. The State...