Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeal of the 18th Amendment. Mr. Roosevelt could not give his conferees much help on the Domestic Allotment bill before Congress because, he smilingly explained, he had not read that farm relief measure and so did not know what was in it. Budget-balancing supplied most of the meat for the conference...
Louis Rice Wasey, board chairman of Erwin, Wasey 8 Co. (advertising agency), and Edwin Eugene Taylor, one-time executive vice president of General Foods Corp, formed Bahama Isles Foods Corp. to manufacture and distribute meat of the pink conch. Though natives look upon el cobo (great Bahama conch) as their staff of life, it has never been commercialized...
...crop in the open market. Thereupon the Treasury would step in and collect as an excise tax 42? from millers on every bushel of wheat they bought for flour, 5? from spinners on every pound of cotton, 4? from cigaret & cigar manufacturers on every pound of tobacco, 2? from meat packers on every pound of hog. Thus special treasury funds would be created out of which the Secretary of Agriculture would pay off the adjustment certificates held by the producers. The wheat man, for example, if the market were 50? per bu., would get $300 for the regular sale...
...article is the fact that Catholics in prison are more publicized than non-Catholics because their priests do something about them. Nobody hears about the religious views of a Methodist criminal. But a Catholic makes copy, as when Francis ("Two-Gun") Crowley, killer of Patrolman Frederick Hirsch, refused meat on the Friday before his execution (TIME...
This is the main plot line of Central Park, but the picture is full of extraordinary bypaths. A lunatic appears in the zoo and tries to get even with one of the keepers for not feeding the animals enough meat. An aged policeman (Guy Kibbee) loses his badge for failing to apprehend the lunatic but not until a lion (Jackie, of the Selig Zoo, Los Angeles) has escaped from his cage and crawled into a taxicab from which he presently emerges to enter the Casino just after its guests have survived the shock of the holdup. All this assorted violence...