Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rebels. United Nations observers found ample evidence that the guerrillas had received aid from Communist-dominated Countries. At several points well inside Albania the U.N. observers saw deep trenches, mortar emplacements, pillboxes, ammunition and food. Just inside Greek territory observers found Hungarian canned vegetables and fruit, Yugoslav canned meat and Albanian cigarettes. In the bushes on either side of the border were Bulgarian books on such subjects as "Thirty Years in the Soviet Army," "This Is How We Fought at Stalingrad" and "The American Plan for the Enslavement of Europe...
They complained, as prisoners always do, of poor food, but seemingly they had reason. Breakfast consists of a small cup of mate, sometimes with sugar, seldom with a biscuit. Meat, usually rotten, is served occasionally, but the dinner staple is corn and beans, which the prisoners eat seated on the floor...
Tired of their butchers' sympathetic tears, the nation's housewives put on a limited but bitter uprising last week. Month after month, penny after penny, the rising price of meat had stretched their nerves taut. Meat bills were 25% above last year's, 170% to 200% above 1939. Across the land, women began boycotting their butchers...
...Dallas, a robust lady strode up to a man with a package of meat under his arm, demanded: "Don't you know that no decent-minded citizen should buy meat?" In Utica, N.Y., a "Budget Brigade" of 3,000 women phoned other women, asked them to stop buying meat. In Detroit, housewives set up stands outside the markets and exhorted customers not to enter. A man on stilts teetered through the streets of Boston bearing the legend: "Don't buy any meat for two weeks. You'll live...
...Florida sun. Disguises were an old dodge to Reporter Sprigle, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1937) for uncovering Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black's past as a Ku Klux Klan member. Three years ago, elaborately roughed up as a black marketeer, he had exposed a meat-rationing scandal in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...