Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herald. A Bull Moose Re publican in 1912, he supported Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and that same year went to Cheyenne, as city editor of Senator Kendrick's Democratic Cheyenne State Leader. Senator Kendrick took his young editor to Washington, put him to work on speeches and meat packing legislation. But Secretary O'Mahoney found spare time to study law. After three years he went back to Cheyenne to hang out his shingle. In another four years he was directing the Democratic campaign which made Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross (now Director of the U. S. Mint) Wyoming...
...Author Fisher intends his four-decker novel to be an honest book. Because he has had a hard, unhappy life and because he writes only of what he knows, Vardis Fisher's books are not cheerful reading, have been called brutal, ruthless. Strong stomachs will find them tough meat but untainted. In Tragic Life brought Vridar Hunter through his unhappy childhood and terrified adolescence in the Idaho hills. Passions Spin the Plot finds him. a gangling youth of 19, on his way to Wasatch College in Salt Lake City. Though college has always been his dream of escape from...
...garden seeds for a leper man so that he may raise his own vegetables-perhaps with a hoe strapped to his stumps of arms; medicines ($5 a year) so that those just developing the dreaded malady may never reach the hopeless mutilated stage; a Christmas dinner of hot meat and vegetables for an entire colony of lepers ($20)-many of whom have had no other amply satisfying meal since last Christmas. That is the kind of Christmas gift that will have real meaning, that will alleviate suffering unspeakable and will bring you a reflection of the good cheer you have...
...industry began to grow. Sharkman Young has spent most of his time since then supplying raw material. With millions of sharks to be had for the taking, he thinks the shark business has a big future. Shark oil is used for tanning, steel-tempering, paint-making. Tons of shark meat, which tastes something like lobster, are sold daily throughout the world, usually under the name of "rock salmon" or "grayfish." Ground-up shark carcass makes good poultry feed or fertilizer. Chinese snap up shark fins for making soup...
...hundred varieties of shark, only about seven have either the disposition or dental equipment to be man-eaters. They are the Blue, Great White, Tiger, Hammerhead, Brown, Australian Whaler and Gray Nurse sharks. Even these are not likely to attack unless maddened by the smell of blood or fresh meat in the water. Most sharks are cowards, easily frightened off by a little hand-waving or water-splashing...