Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hamtramck, an independent municipality completely surrounded by Detroit, 250 housewives led by Mrs. Mary Zuk formed the Women's League Against the High Cost of Living, began picketing butchers' shops and branches of packing plants. They demanded a 20% cut in the price of meats. All but one shop in town closed. Angry butchers petitioned AAA to explain to Mrs. Zuk and friends that they were not responsible for the price of meat. AAA refused to admit its responsibility for meat prices...
...Santa Claus? Last week 18 meat packers headed by Armour and Swift got injunctions in Chicago forbidding the Government to collect hog processing taxes. In Virginia, P. Lorillard (Old Golds) and Philip Morris opened suits against tobacco processing taxes. In Detroit, Denver and Kansas City Federal judges restrained the Government's tax collections. Processing taxes on wheat, corn, hogs, cotton, tobacco were contested. A temporary injunction against the operation of the Bankhead Cotton Act was issued in the Texas courts. All told, AAA found itself facing 705 court challenges, which meant that 705 processors were eager to maintain before...
...prideful lot were the nerve specialists who met in London last week for an International Neurological Congress. To them, the brain, cathedral of human intelligence, is no more than 2½ lb. of raw meat, the cerebrospinal nervous system, conveyor of human will to muscles, a set of puppeteer's strings; the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, a network of complex paths, lanes, byways and highways through which the human soul moves strangely. To know the complexities of the neural ways and cords and of the cerebral mass requires a chess player's intricate mentality. To dare...
...turtle net, the head of the family implores his kin to have no quarrels, which might put a curse on the net and drive the turtles away. The ba-Ila of Africa are certain that if a person is discontented with his portion of eland meat but does not speak out, his kin will suffer from goitre and wens on the head...
...items warranted serious consideration. Excited by the response and quality of the material from the nation's most obscure reporters, Editors McMillen & Lord at once decided that "our prize offer was too puny for an event of such importance." So they upped the main prize by one silver meat platter, one vegetable dish to match and one trip to New York, created a number of special awards, scattered gratuitous $5 bounties this way & that. The contest will henceforth be expanded and enlarged, "the prize offer will be multiplied several times." Well might Country Home grow enthusiastic over their crossroads...